Maharashtra govt revokes 5% reservation for Muslims in education, jobs citing lapsed 2014 ordinance

Mumbai, 18/2: In what snowballed into a major political issue in Maharashtra, the BJP-led Maha Yuti revoked the decision of granting 5 per cent reservations to Muslims.

In 2014 when the Congress-NCP Democratic Front government was in power, the Muslim community, under the Socially and Educationally Backward Class (SEBC) category, was given reservation in educational institutions, semi-government and government jobs.