Madhya Pradesh government has issued a strong statement dismissing the viral contents as not of its ‘declared or approved’ policy on the issue of OBC reservation and called it ‘completely false, fabricated and misleading’. The controversy, although dismissed by the government as factually incorrect, has however brought to focus on the vexed issue of OBC reservation that dogged the Madhya Pradesh government for the past six years. The decision was later challenged in the Madhya Pradesh high court which had later stayed it. The state government has submitted the recommendations of various commissions constituted by the state government in the past as annexures to the affidavit. If the 27 percent reservation for OBC is implemented, the total quota will reach 73 percent.