The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the Telangana government’s petition challenging the Telangana High Court’s interim order that halted the State’s decision to raise Other Backward Classes (OBC) reservation in local body elections to 42 per cent. The increase would have pushed total reservations in the State’s local bodies to 67 per cent.

A bench comprising Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta clarified that the dismissal of the plea would not prevent the High Court from deciding the issue on its merits.

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The Telangana government had approached the Supreme Court after the High Court temporarily stayed its move to implement the enhanced quota for OBCs, introduced through the Panchayat Raj (Amendment) Bill, 2025, and the Telangana Municipalities (Am

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