Addressing a programme at an educational institution in Hyderabad, Bhagwat said the Sangh is of the opinion that the reservations should be extended as long as they are needed.
Mohan Bhagwath.(Twitter)
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday, 28 April, said the Sangh Parivar never opposed reservations extended to certain groups.
Addressing a programme at an educational institution in Hyderabad, Bhagwat said the Sangh is of the opinion that the reservations should be extended as long as they are needed.
Bhagwat’s reiteration came in the wake of a war of words taking place between BJP and Congress over reservations.
The RSS chief last year in Nagpur said that reservations should continue as long as there is discrimination in society. Discrimination exists in society even though it is invisible, he had said.
Opposition parties have been claiming that if the ruling BJP returns for a third successive term after winning the national elections, its government will rewrite the Constitution of India and do away with the reservation policy.
Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy had described the BJP’s attempts to get more than 400 seats as a “conspiracy” to rehash the Indian constitution to make India a country without reservations for any caste.
Calling the saffron party’s attempts a ‘surgical strike on Dalits, tribals and OBCs’, he stressed the need for caste census, saying that it was the only way to increase reservation percentage.
Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi also recently accused the BJP and the RSS of attempting to destroy the diversity of the country and claimed that now people are afraid to practice their religion or follow their traditions.
Asserting that the Congress would not let the BJP change the Constitution, Gandhi said that it was the “sacred duty” of the party to protect every single Indian, regardless of their community, religion, and state.
(With PTI inputs)
(Edited by Shauqueen Mizaj)
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