Lambasting the Congress for spreading falsehoods about the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) doing away with reservations, Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah on Tuesday said that it was Narendra Modi’s guarantee that no one could think of scrapping the reservation of the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) as long as the BJP remained in power.
Addressing a rally in Maharashtra’s Akola, Mr. Shah further censured the erstwhile Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government of failing to respond to terror attacks perpetrated by Pakistan as it wanted to “safeguard its vote-bank”, an allusion to the minority community.
“The country’s public gave us the power to change the Constitution for the last ten years by voting the BJP twice into office with a full majority. But we never scrapped reservation. Instead, we used the power vested to us because of our majority to do away with Article 370, the triple talaq, and end terrorism and to get the CAA passed,” Mr. Shah said, in his second visit to Akola in over a month.
