Last Updated:May 06, 2025, 13:39 IST Supreme Court Justice Surya Kant said the reservation system was becoming like a train compartment, where those who had already secured their seats did not want others to enter. Supreme Court of India | File Image (PTI) Supreme Court Justice Surya Kant on Tuesday likened the caste reservation system in India to a “train compartment”, where people who have already secured their seats do not want others to enter. He made the remarks during a hearing related to OBC reservation in the local body elections in Maharashtra. Senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan was arguing on behalf of the petitioner that politically backward and socially backward classes should be identified in the state. Sankaranarayanan said Maharashtra’s Banthia Commission had given reservations to the OBCs without asserting that they were politically backward. “The thing is, in this country, the reservation business has become like a railway. Those who have entered the compartment don’t want anyone else to enter. That is the whole game. That is precisely the game of the petitioner as …