The BJP’s national Other Backward Classes (OBC) Morcha is expected to play an important role in the next General Elections. The party is forming committees down to the booth level in every constituency, with at least five members in each committee, after it successfully created 856 district and 12,000 mandal committees of Backward Classes in the last couple of years.
“For the first time, the country has a BC (Backward Class person) as Prime Minister in Narendra Modi. It is our responsibility to bring OBCs under our party fold and win them over as our government has taken up many schemes for their welfare and development. We have been giving them posts in both the party and government, proportional to their population,” Rajya Sabha MP and the BJP’s national OBC president K. Laxman said.
In an exclusive interaction with The Hindu after the recently concluded national executive meet of the party at Jodhpur, which was attended by Union Home Minister Amit Shah and party president J.P. Nadda, Mr. Laxman said the BJP has resolved to take up campaigns, community meetings and exhibitions on its schemes for OBCs to ensure they reach the targeted last mile beneficiaries.
