Lucknow, December 28: The Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday appointed a five-member commission for providing reservation to Other Backward Classes in urban local body elections. The panel will be headed by Justice (Retd) Ram Avtar Singh. UP Local Body Elections: No OBC Reservation in Local Polls in Uttar Pradesh, Rules Allahabad High Court.

A notification on the panel's constitution, issued by the Urban Development department, said the commission term would be for a six-month period from the day of taking charge. Uttar Pradesh Urban Local Body Elections: No OBC Reservation in Local Polls, Orders Allahabad High Court.

The constitution of the commission comes a day after the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court quashed the state government's draft notification on urban local body elections and ordered it to hold the polls without reservation for the Other Backward Classes.

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