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Maharashtra Muslims Quota: The Mahayuti government in Maharashtra officially revoked the 5 per cent reservation given to Muslims in government jobs and educational institutions. The Devendra Fadnavis government issued a notification announcing the nullification of the quota. The reservation for the minority was announced by the Congress-NCP government in 2014.

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Then Congress-led government brought an ordinance to provide a 5 per cent Muslim quota ahead of the elections, but it could not become a law as the ruling alliance lost the subsequent assembly elections in the same year. The 5% reservation quota for socially and educationally backward Muslims (under SEBC/SBC-A category) failed to become a law after the Bombay High Court stayed it and the ordinance lapsed without legislative approval. The ordinance could not be renewed and later tangled into legal battle in the court. Putting an end to the legal limbo, the government finally declared the controversial quota revoked.

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"From the social and educational point of view, 5% reservation in government and semi-government direct service recruitment and admission in educational institutions would have been prescribed under Ordinance No. 1 of the General Administration Department, under the special path Category-A for the Muslim group who had passed the path. According to Agreement No. 2, as per the government decision of the Minority Development Department, 5% reservation would have been given for Special Route Category-A (SBC-A) category in recruitment to direct service posts," the government notification read.

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The Reservation classified Muslims under the Special Backwards Class-A (SBC-A) category and applied to government jobs and educational institutions. However, the ordinance was challenged in the High Court, which stayed it on November 14, 2014.

Since the ordinance was not enacted into law by the Maharashtra legislature by the December 23, 2014, deadline, it lapsed automatically. The Supreme Court later cancelled the reservation while deciding a Special Leave Petition (SLP) against the Bombay High Court order, effectively invalidating the provision. 

(With Agencies inputs)


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