New Delhi: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi is towards reservation for the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Different Backward Lessons, and his prejudice towards the supply got here out within the open throughout his interplay with college students of Georgetown College within the US, the BJP stated on Tuesday.
The BJP’s accusation got here after Gandhi advised the scholars on the prestigious college that the Congress would consider scrapping reservations when “India is a good place”, which he stated will not be the case proper now.
Latching on to the Congress chief’s comment, senior BJP chief Ravi Shankar Prasad stated, “Rahul Gandhi, who pleads and claims to be saving the Structure, has stated in America that he (his occasion) will scrap reservation when the circumstances so warrant a equity.”
“With this, the bias towards reservation which Rahul Gandhi has in abundance bought mirrored in America,” the previous Union minister stated, and alleged that the Congress chief’s marketing campaign to avoid wasting the Structure and save reservation is nothing however a “charade”.
Opposition to reservation is Rahul Gandhi’s legacy, Prasad charged, saying that former prime ministers Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi have been additionally towards offering reservation to the members of the Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Different Backward Lessons (OBC).
Prasad additionally focused the INDIA bloc of the opposition events and requested DMK chief M Okay Stalin, RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, Samajwadi Celebration president Akhilesh Yadav and leaders of the Left events to interrupt their silence on Gandhi’s comment.
“I wish to warn that if Congress tries to do any tampering with the supply of reservation or scrap it, the BJP will vehemently oppose it,” he stated.
