With reference to the recent withdrawal of West Bengal's Supreme Court appeal over its OBC list, consider the following statements:
- The Calcutta High Court struck down OBC status for 77 classes after finding that religion appeared to be the sole criterion behind their inclusion between 2010 and
- 2. Article 15(4) and Article 16(4) of the Constitution explicitly list religion as a valid criterion for identifying a socially and educationally backward class.
- West Bengal's new list restored a flat 7% quota for 66 communities that had held OBC status prior to 2010, following a fresh empirical backwardness assessment by the State Backward Classes Commission.
- The Supreme Court's order permitting the withdrawal of the appeal explicitly left open the right of other aggrieved parties to independently challenge the High Court's ruling.
How many of the statements given above are correct?
Tests the ability to distinguish genuine constitutional compliance from mere procedural reversion - recognising that following a court's finding on method is not the same as adopting a constitutionally validated method.
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This question is based on: Bengal's 77-Community OBC List Is Dead - What Replaced It Tells the Real Story