Reservation and How it has taken its Turn Recently: An Insight into Vikas Kisanrao Gawali Vs. State of Maharashtra

Abirami Vishwanathan

doi:doi.org/10.55662/JLSR.2023.9102

Reservation and How it has taken its Turn Recently: An Insight into Vikas Kisanrao Gawali Vs. State of Maharashtra

Publication Information

Journal Title: Journal of Legal Studies & Research
Author(s): Abirami Vishwanathan
Published On: 30/01/2023
Volume: 9
Issue: 1
First Page: 74
Last Page: 78
ISSN: 2455-2437
Publisher: The Law Brigade Publisher

DOI: doi.org/10.55662/JLSR.2023.9102

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Abirami Vishwanathan, Reservation and How it has taken its Turn Recently: An Insight into Vikas Kisanrao Gawali Vs. State of Maharashtra, Volume 9 Issue 1, Journal of Legal Studies & Research, 74-78, Published on 30/01/2023, doi.org/10.55662/JLSR.2023.9102 Available at https://jlsr.thelawbrigade.com/article/reservation-and-how-it-has-taken-its-turn-recently-an-insight-into-vikas-kisanrao-gawali-vs-state-of-maharashtra/

Abstract

The supreme court on 6^th December, 2021 stayed the 27% reservation for the OBCs in the local body elections, in the new petition filed by Rahul Ramesh Wagh. The supreme court noted the decisions held earlier this year in Vikas Kisanrao Gawali v State of Maharashtra.

An important stance taken in the judgement was that political backwardness does not necessarily mean the same as social or economic backwardness.

Therefore, reservation policies with respect to political backwardness should not be constructed with social and economic backwardness in mind.

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Keywords: Reservation, Social and Economically Backward Classes, Scheduled Tribes, Schedules Castes, Other Backward Classes, Local Self Government