The BJP government in Maharashtra has decided to use the Ordinance route to reverse a Supreme Court judgment, barring the state from implementing the Maratha quota for admissions to postgraduate medical courses this year. The first issue came up with postgraduate medical examinations. On May 2, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court, while hearing a petition, had disallowed the quota for admissions for postgraduate medical courses on the grounds that the “reservation cannot be applicable with retrospective effect”. Admission process for postgraduate medical courses had already begun before the Maratha quota was cleared, the court had argued. With state polls just five months away, the verdict could have potentially triggered another Maratha reservation agitation in the state.

Source: Indian Express May 17, 2019 00:33 UTC