The Madhya Pradesh government may move the Supreme Court after the High Court rejected the 27 percent OBC quota on Friday. A senior BJP functionary said, "It is imperative for the state government to challenge the HC verdict." The government now seeks legal advice to restore the higher reservation limit.

Madhya Pradesh's BJP government is considering a Supreme Court challenge to the High Court verdict restoring the 14% OBC quota.

In a bid to deny the Opposition Congress from taking political advantage of Friday's verdict by the Madhya Pradesh high court striking down 27 percent quota for the Other Backward Class (OBC), the state BJP government may move the supreme court challenging the judgement.

Reliable sources said that the Mohan Yadav government is planning to take views of the legal experts on the matter before deciding the next course of action.

"The OBC constitutes 54 percent of the state's population. It is imperative for the state government to challenge the HC verdict in the supreme court to increase the OBC quota from 14 percent to 27 percent to foil any attempt by the Congress to take advantage of the development in the 2028 Assembly polls", a senior BJP functionary told this newspaper on Saturday.

The high court dumped the law, passed by the then Kamal Nath government in March 2019, increasing the OBC reservation from 14 percent to 27 percent, and restored the 14 percent OBC quota.

In a related development, state BJP president Hemant Khandelwal blamed the previous Congress government for the rejection of 27 percent OBC quota by the court, saying that the previous Kamal Nath government had hurriedly promulgated a flawed ordinance increasing OBC reservation from 14 percent to 27 percent, leading to its rejection by the high court.

Mr. Khandelwal indicated that the state government will take legal view on the matter and consult with the Opposition parties before deciding the next course of action.

He said that the state BJP government will ensure that the backward communities are given their rightful due in the reservation policy while deciding the next course of action.

Earlier, state Congress president Jitu Patwari accused the state government of not presenting the case before the court properly leading to rejection of the 27 percent OBC quota law.

He said that his party will move the supreme court challenging the verdict.