NEW DELHI: Responding to Rahul Gandhi‘s allegation of an RSS conspiracy to end reservations, education minister Dharmendra Pradhan Monday said the Congress leader’s politics was based on lies and he should apologise for his act of misguiding people.
“As soon as the truth of one lie is exposed, they rise with another lie. The list of false statements made by him is endless.Now, Rahul Gandhi and Congress are telling a new lie regarding appointment to reserved posts in higher education. But this lie of his has also been exposed by facts,” Pradhan said, reacting to Rahul’s claim that in the new UGC draft, there was a conspiracy to end reservations given to SC, ST and OBC categories in higher education institutions in the name of “de-reserving” posts if enough qualified candidates were not found.
“Today, out of approximately 7,000 reserved posts in 45 central universities, 3,000 are vacant. Only 7.1% are Dalit, 1.6% are tribal and 4.5% are backward class professors. BJP-RSS, which have even talked about reviewing reservation, now want to snatch the jobs of deprived classes from such higher education institutions,” Rahul claimed.
In response, Pradhan said, “It is clear from the data that the maximum number of appointments have been made in the Modi government in proportion to regular reservation on reserved posts in central universities. In the total appointments made on 6,080 posts, Scheduled Caste (SC) is 14.3%, Scheduled Tribe (ST) is 7% and OBC is 23.42%. Apart from this, the appointment process for the remaining posts under these rules is in progress.”
Claiming that Rahul was spreading lies, the minister said, “Congress has an old habit of dividing society and creating instability by spreading lies. The basic character of Congress is anti-SC-ST-OBC. While in power, Congress has always openly opposed the interests of the deprived society.
“This is an open challenge to Rahul Gandhi to provide concrete evidence of the false figures given by him or publicly apologise for his lies,” Pradhan added.
“As soon as the truth of one lie is exposed, they rise with another lie. The list of false statements made by him is endless.Now, Rahul Gandhi and Congress are telling a new lie regarding appointment to reserved posts in higher education. But this lie of his has also been exposed by facts,” Pradhan said, reacting to Rahul’s claim that in the new UGC draft, there was a conspiracy to end reservations given to SC, ST and OBC categories in higher education institutions in the name of “de-reserving” posts if enough qualified candidates were not found.
“Today, out of approximately 7,000 reserved posts in 45 central universities, 3,000 are vacant. Only 7.1% are Dalit, 1.6% are tribal and 4.5% are backward class professors. BJP-RSS, which have even talked about reviewing reservation, now want to snatch the jobs of deprived classes from such higher education institutions,” Rahul claimed.
In response, Pradhan said, “It is clear from the data that the maximum number of appointments have been made in the Modi government in proportion to regular reservation on reserved posts in central universities. In the total appointments made on 6,080 posts, Scheduled Caste (SC) is 14.3%, Scheduled Tribe (ST) is 7% and OBC is 23.42%. Apart from this, the appointment process for the remaining posts under these rules is in progress.”
Claiming that Rahul was spreading lies, the minister said, “Congress has an old habit of dividing society and creating instability by spreading lies. The basic character of Congress is anti-SC-ST-OBC. While in power, Congress has always openly opposed the interests of the deprived society.
“This is an open challenge to Rahul Gandhi to provide concrete evidence of the false figures given by him or publicly apologise for his lies,” Pradhan added.