Kurukshetra:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi lashed out on the Congress on Saturday, alleging that the “royal household” of the opposition celebration desires to get rid of the reservation for Dalits and asserting that so long as he’s there, he won’t enable a fraction of the quota given by B R Ambedkar to be looted or eliminated. The prime minister mentioned this whereas addressing his first rally in Haryana within the run-up to the October 5 state Meeting polls.
Addressing the rally in Kurukshetra district, PM Modi recalled sure incidents that befell when the Congress was in energy within the state and requested the gathering, “Who is aware of the anti-Dalit face of the Congress higher than Haryana?”
He accused the Gandhi household of being the “greatest anti-Dalit, anti-OBC and anti-tribal” drive within the nation.
“They’ve now mentioned if they arrive to energy, they may finish the reservation for Dalits and the downtrodden. That is the reality of this household,” PM Modi mentioned.
The Gandhi household all the time “hated” BR Ambedkar and was strongly against reservation, he alleged.
The household had “insulted” Dalits, Different Backward Courses (OBC) and tribals, the prime minister alleged additional.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) has been attacking the Congress, saying Rahul Gandhi is in opposition to reservation for the Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes and OBC, and his prejudice in opposition to the supply got here out within the open throughout his latest interplay with the scholars of Georgetown College in the USA.
The BJP’s accusation got here after Mr Gandhi informed the scholars on the prestigious college that the Congress would consider scrapping reservations when “India is a good place”, which he mentioned shouldn’t be the case proper now.
Taking up the nation’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, PM Modi claimed that he too had opposed reservation.
“He had written to the chief ministers of the states on this regard. There’s proof of this. Nehruji had mentioned if individuals get jobs on account of reservation, the standard of presidency service will drop. These have been the phrases of Nehruji,” he mentioned.
Jawaharlal Nehru put the Kakasaheb Kalekar Fee’s report on the OBC reservation on the again burner, he claimed, including that Jawaharlal Nehru’s daughter, former prime minister Indira Gandhi, had additionally stalled the OBC reservation.
The Mandal Fee was fashioned below the Janata Occasion authorities however when the Congress returned to energy, it put the fee’s report on the again burner, he claimed.
“Rajivji (former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi) additionally didn’t let the OBC get reservation,” he mentioned.
Then Mandal Fee report was applied in the course of the V P Singh authorities, which was supported by the BJP, PM Modi mentioned.
“Because the opposition chief in Parliament, Rajiv Gandhi had opposed the reservation. In an interview, he had dubbed those that obtained reservations as ‘buddhu’,” he claimed.
There couldn’t be a much bigger insult to the SC, ST and OBC communities than this, the prime minister mentioned.
“Now, the royal household of the Congress is once more insisting on disposing of reservation. However the Congress ought to hearken to me fastidiously. So long as PM Modi is right here, I cannot enable a fraction of the reservation given by Baba Saheb Ambedkar to be looted or eliminated.
“The SC, ST and OBC reservations will keep. That is Modi’s assure and we’ll battle for it,” he mentioned.
Nobody is aware of the anti-Dalit face of the Congress higher than the individuals of Haryana, the prime minister mentioned, including that each time the grand previous celebration fashioned its authorities within the state, it turned troublesome for Dalits to reside.
Referring to a 2005 incident in Gohana, he mentioned, “Can any Dalit household overlook it? In 2010, there was the Mirchpur incident. In 2012, the Bhagana incident and in 2014, what occurred to daughters of Dalits? The soul shivers when somebody remembers that shameful incident.” The then chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and the “royal household” of the Congress saved mum at the moment, PM Modi mentioned.
The Dalit neighborhood wants to stay alert of the Congress, he added.
Within the Gohana incident, a number of Dalit homes have been set ablaze by some individuals after a person from the neighborhood was suspected of being concerned within the killing of an upper-caste individual.
Within the Mirchpur incident, on April 21, 2010, a bunch of villagers belonging to an higher caste allegedly torched greater than a dozen Dalit homes, killing a teenage lady and her aged father.
PM Modi requested the Congress to handle its “androoni Mahabharat” (infighting).
“The way in which the Congress is doing its politics in Haryana by placing one household ahead, the whole Dalit Samaj is watching it,” he mentioned, apparently referring to the Hooda household this time.
The prime minister asserted that the BJP authorities is dedicated in direction of the event of Haryana.
“Throughout the earlier Congress regime, corruption had develop into a ritual in Haryana,” he alleged.
Kids suffered due to this as they may not get jobs with out “kharchi-parchi (favouritism, corruption)”, PM Modi mentioned.
He mentioned the BJP authorities ended this “sport of kharchi-parchi”.
The federal government gave 1.5 lakh jobs in a clear method, PM Modi mentioned.
He mentioned Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini goes to present 25,000 jobs to children however the Congress “Bharti roko gang” is creating impediments to it.
The BJP forming its authorities in Haryana for a 3rd straight time means “sabka vikas, tez vikas (quick growth for all)”, the prime minister mentioned.
The 90-member Haryana Meeting is scheduled to go to polls on October 5 and the counting of votes can be taken up on October 8.
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