WB Assembly passes Bills to revamp OBC reservation framework

Two crucial Bills relating to reservation in West Bengal government jobs for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) were passed by voice vote in the Assembly on Monday, paving the way for the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government to scrap the OBC list prepared during the previous Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) regime.

The two Bills passed by the House are “The West Bengal Backward Classes (Other than SC and ST) Reservation of Vacancies in Services and Posts (Amendment) Bill, 2026” and “The West Bengal Backward Classes



Commission (Amendment) Bill, 2026”.

Backward Classes Welfare and Mass Education Extension and Library Services Minister Gouri Shankar Ghosh tabled the Bills.

Speaking during the debate, BJP legislators alleged that the previous TMC government had deliberately prepared a biased OBC list by including a large number of people from the Muslim community to appease its minority vote bank. The party also claimed that the revised list had given additional advantages to Muslim communities at the cost of Hindu communities.