A day after former Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s charges about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s OBC status, the Opposition party leaders on Friday claimed that the Prime Minister was “misleading” the country in the name of his caste and questioned his OBC status.
Two prominent Opposition leaders — former Chief Minister of Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot and Rajya Sabha member and Gujarat Congress president Shaktisinh Gohil — said that Mr. Modi’s caste was included in the list of OBCs much later; he never claimed to be from an OBC community earlier but does it now for political purposes.
“Modi surname is very common among communities engaged in trading and they are all from upper castes. If PM Modi is indeed from the OBC as he claims, then he must immediately accept the demand of the Congress party and Rahul Gandhi for caste census,” Mr. Gehlot said in a post on X.
