BJP has anti-reservation agenda, alleges JD(U)
The Hindu
JD(U) national president Lalan Singh alleged that the recent Patna High Court order that declared as illegal quotas for OBCs/EBCs in urban local body polls in the State was a result of a “conspiracy”
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (United) on Thursday charged the BJP, its former ally, with working on an “agenda” to do away with reservations for backward classes.
JD(U) national president Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh also alleged that the recent Patna High Court order that declared as illegal quotas for OBCs/EBCs in urban local body polls in the State was a result of a “conspiracy”.
Mr. Singh made the allegations at a demonstration held near the historic Gandhi Maidan here.
The demonstration was part of a Statewide programme of the JD(U) called ‘ aarakshan virodhi Bhajapaa ka pol khol’ (exposing the anti-reservation BJP).
“When Mohan Bhagwat had said, ahead of Bihar Assembly polls of 2015, that there was a need for a review of the reservation system, we were apprehensive. Over the years, the BJP's agenda to do away with reservations has grown only more obvious”, alleged the JD(U) president, whose party quit the NDA two months ago.
He was referring to an interview of the RSS chief, which had led to a huge backlash and resulted in the trouncing of the BJP by the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ comprising JD(U), Lalu Prasad's RJD and Congress, a year and a half after the state was swept by the Modi wave in the Lok Sabha polls.
The Bihar CM, who is the JD(U)'s de facto leader, had returned to the NDA in 2017 and Mr. Lalan pointed out that resolutions in favour of a nationwide caste census were thereafter passed twice by the bicameral State Legislature.