Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday (December 24, 2025) accused the ruling BJP of denying constitutionally mandated reservation to Other Backward Classes in the Uttar Pradesh Government recruitments.
He alleged a large-scale “loot” of reserved category posts over the past five years. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Mr. Yadav claimed that the BJP was rejecting nearly one-third of the 27% reservation fixed for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) under the Constitution. He said this exposed the party's "anti-Constitution and anti-reservation face".
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"The BJP is denying one-third of the Constitutionally mandated 27% reservation for OBCs and showing its real ‘anti-Constitution, anti-reservation’ face. Now the newly appointed BJP State president should come forward and save OBC reservation from being usurped," Mr. Yadav said.
The former Chief Minister cited the ongoing Lekhpal recruitment in the Uttar Pradesh Revenue Department as an example. He said out of 7,994 posts, only 1,441 have been reserved for OBCs. "According to the 27% reservation, 2,158 posts should have been reserved for OBCs. This means 717 OBC Lekhpal posts have been looted even before recruitment," he alleged.
