Centre has vehemently defended its move to include more castes to the list of backward classes in the Supreme Court and has forcefully denied the involvement of caste politics in the move. To press its point the Centre drew the attention of the court to the fact that National Commission for Backward Classes had carefully considered the claim of the castes included before making them a part of the list and in doing so it had also rejected the claim of several politically dominant castes, like Khandayat and Marathas.

Centre informed the court that as many as 531 castes had been rejected after being considered, which only proves that the Commission has applied its mind independently and there was no vote bank politics involved. The Centre, speaking through the Solicitor General, also told that the first major inclusion in the list took place in 1994.

Simply because the claim of certain castes was rejected does not necessarily prove that there was no politics involved. Politics can be cause for both inclusion and rejection.
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