Rohit Basoya

Background

Rohit Basoya is an advocate by profession, based in Delhi and trained in law with a B.A. LL.B. degree. His years spent practicing law gave him a close, working understanding of how India's legal and political systems actually treat questions of representation and reservation — and how often OBC communities were left out of those conversations altogether, despite making up more than half the country's population.

That gap between the size of the OBC population and its share of the national conversation is what eventually led him to step out of individual legal practice and into public organising.

Why He Founded AIUOF

Rohit founded the All India United OBC Federation with a straightforward observation: OBC communities across India — Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, and South Indian alike — have long been divided along religious and regional lines, which has weakened their collective voice in Parliament. He believed that as long as OBCs kept organising separately by faith and region, their demands for fair representation would keep getting diluted.

AIUOF was built to change that — bringing every OBC community under one federation, united by caste rather than divided by faith, so that their numbers translate into real political weight.

His Vision

Rohit's vision for AIUOF rests on two goals he sees as inseparable. The first is political: securing equal, proportionate representation for OBCs in Parliament, so that a community of this size finally has a say in the laws and policies that affect it. The second is about reservation — ensuring OBC reservation is protected and properly implemented, not just on paper but in practice.

A big part of that vision is awareness. Rohit has often pointed out that many young people from OBC communities don't even know they belong to an OBC category — and as a result, never claim the reservation benefits they're entitled to, including reservation in college admissions. He wants every OBC child in India to grow up knowing their community status and understanding the rights that come with it, so that no student misses out on an opportunity simply because no one told them it existed.

For Rohit, AIUOF isn't just a political federation — it's meant to be the bridge between what OBC communities are legally entitled to and what they actually know and receive.