Union Minister for environment and labour Bhupender Yadav on Monday stepped up the BJP’s attack on the Opposition by citing a recent report of the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) to accuse the Rajasthan, West Bengal, Punjab and Bihar governments of discriminating against the Other Backward Classes (OBC).
The BJP’s attack is significant as many of these parties, the Trinamool Congress, the Aam Aadmi Party, the Congress, the Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Janata Dal (U) are heading governments in the above States, and have been demanding a caste census as a way of ensuring a rightful share of quotas in government jobs and educational institutions for OBCs.
“While the BJP government at the Centre gave the NCBC a constitutional status and took many steps towards social justice, the Congress never gave OBCs their due and was even opposed to providing reservations for them,” Mr. Yadav alleged. “Wherever the Congress and these parties are in power, OBCs are being discriminated against,” he claimed.
