New Delhi. After the release of Bihar caste survey results, BJP has countered the opposition’s renewed efforts for caste census by linking it to the politics of appeasement. BJP said that its social engineering formula is aimed at empowering the backward castes. has been much more effective.
PM Narendra Modi took the lead in poll-bound Chhattisgarh on Tuesday and said at a rally in Jagdalpur in Bastar that the opposition is ‘trying to divide the country in the name of caste.’ Mentioned Manmohan Singh’s speech.
PM Modi said that ‘Singh used to say that minorities have the first right on the country’s resources… but now Congress is saying that the population of the community will decide who will have the first right on the country’s resources.
It is noteworthy that EBC is the main support base of Nitish. Senior MP and former Bihar BJP president Sanjay Jaiswal said that ‘from 1996 to 2013, Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar tried to include advanced Muslims in the EBC category.
By including well-educated and ruling class Muslims in the EBC category, both these leaders and their parties have done injustice not only to the genuine EBCs in the Hindu community, but also to the Muslims.
Interestingly, both these leaders have included Muslims in the EBC community with executive orders. Due to this, all the reservation given to genuine EBC has ended.
