“Rahul Gandhi, who claimed to save the Constitution, said in America that ‘when the conditions so warrant, of fairness, we will scrap reservation’. The prejudice against reservation which Rahul Gandhi has in abundance got reflected in America.”
“Rahul creates ruckus when he goes abroad”.
The ex-law minister went on to say it was Rahul Gandhi’s legacy to oppose reservations. “Nehru, Rajeev, Indira were all opposed to reservations”, he said. The BJP leader also argued that it was the grand old party that was against the deprived communities while the saffron party embraced the communities by appointing an OBC prime minister, Dalit President and many more chief ministers from the backward community.
The BJP leader cited leaders like Prime Minister Modi, President Murmu, Kalyan Singh, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Uma Bharati, Gopinath Munde, Mohan Yadav, who have risen in the party and touted it as an example of the party’s commitment towards the backward communities. ” We don’t say, we do,” Ravi Shankar Prasad asserted.
Ravi Shankar Prasad also targeted the INDIA bloc and asked DMK chief M K Stalin, RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav and leaders of the Left parties to break their silence on Gandhi’s remark.”I want to warn that if Congress tries to do any tampering with the provision of reservation or scrap it, the BJP will vehemently oppose it,” he said.
‘Rahul Gandhi’s statement has exposed the mindset of the Congress party’
Meanwhile, Lok Janshakti Party (LJP-Ram Vilas)’s Chirag Paswan, a BJP ally that is a key constituent in the Centre’s ruling coalition, said the LoP’s statements had exposed the Congress’ mindset, and stressed that even thinking of ending the quota system was an anti-constitutional move.
“Rahul Gandhi ji, let alone ending reservation, even thinking about it is a crime! Today, Rahul Gandhi’s statement has exposed the mindset of the Congress party. Congress wants, and it has been one of their priorities, to end the reservation given by Baba Saheb Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar. Reservation is necessary to continue the constitutional system smoothly. In such a situation, let alone ending the reservation, no one can even think of tampering with that provision.”
What did Rahul Gandhi say?
Earlier in the day, Rahul Gandhi who is on a trip to the US said the Congress Party would think of scrapping reservations when India is a fair place, which is not the case right now. “We will think of scrapping reservations when India is a fair place. And India is not a fair place,” the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi told students in response to a question on reservation and how long it would continue.
“The problem is that 90% of India is not able to play. Go through the list of every single business leader in India. I’ve done it. Show me the tribal name. Show me the Dalit name. Show me the OBC name. Out of the top 200, I think there’s one OBC. They’re 50% of India. But we’re not treating the symptom,” he said.
“There are many people who come from the upper caste who say, look, what have we done wrong? Why are we being punished? So, then you think about increasing dramatically the supply of some of these things. You think about decentralising power. You think about involving many more people in the governance of our country. You think of opening up. With all due respect, I don’t think any of you are ever going to become Adani or Ambani. There’s a reason for that. You can’t. Because those doors are closed. So the answer to people in the general cast is you open those doors,” Rahul Gandhi said.