Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Large disparities between the upper OBCs and the lower OBCs make the OBCs a difficult political category to work with.
Statement II: The upper OBCs are largely landed castes and enjoy dominance in the urban sector in many regions of India.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect
Statement I: Large disparities between the upper OBCs and the lower OBCs make the OBCs a difficult political category to work with. — Correct. Upper OBCs are largely landed and dominant, but lower OBCs are very poor and often close to Dalits. This gap makes the OBCs a difficult political category to work with.
Statement II: The upper OBCs are largely landed castes and enjoy dominance in the urban sector in many regions of India. — Incorrect. The upper OBCs are largely landed castes, but their dominance lies in rural society. In the urban sector the situation of OBCs is much worse, close to that of the Scheduled Castes and Tribes.
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