Odisha: Opposition says OBC survey bid to create vote bank by Naveen Patnaik
(WorldNews India)

A former state minister said that the OBC survey was an attempt to create an OBC votebank and this would be the first instance in Odisha of influencing voting as per caste lines. PUBLISHED ON MAR 03, 2021 11:10 AM IST Odisha is all set to start a survey of social and educational conditions of state`s OBC community from May 1 this year, becoming the first state to undertake such an exercise even as opposition parties questioned the motive, asking if the Naveen Patnaik government was planning to create an OBC votebank. The Odisha State Commission for Backward Classes formed last year, recently announced that a database on the present conditions of people belonging to the OBC community will be...