Senior leader of the Congress Jairam Ramesh has recently launched a blistering attack on Amit Shah concerning the Reservation issue on Tuesday.
Speaking To ANI, Jairam mockingly said that Amit Shah had contracted the same disease as PM Modi. Which is to spread lies.
#WATCH | Delhi: On reservation issue, Congress General Secretary in-charge Communications, Jairam Ramesh says, “Amit Shah has contracted the same disease as that of PM Modi. The disease of spreading lies. PM and HM spread the pandemic of lies every day. They believe in… pic.twitter.com/J80Y6Cn8Ki
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Further attacking Modi-Shah duo, that they are the believer of ‘Asatyameva Jayate.’ They spread the pandemic of Lies every day.
On Reservation
Speaking on the reservation issue, Jairam Ramesh has admitted that they have indeed provided the reservation to minorities in Karnataka. But he further clarified, it was done on the basis of social and economic backwardness. Not On Religious Basis per say.
Talking about this reservation model, the senior congress leader further said that everybody are taking credit. Deve Goda in Karnataka took the credit of this model.
While in Andhra Pradesh, Chandrababu Naidu has recently announced that this model will be replicated there.
Will The Grand-Old Party Increase the Reservation Cap?
Talking about the increasing the reservation cap above 50 percent, the senior leader clarified that congress will indeed increase the reservation.
When asked about this rationale, Ramesh said that backward classes should get reservation as per the population. And further emphasized that our constitution’s basic principle lies in social justice.
Asserting that through reservation only, social justice in its true sense will be achieved.
“The backward classes of our society should get reservation as per their population. Our Constitution’s basic principle is social justice. The path to social justice is reservation…What Rahul Gandhi has said is the guarantee that we have given in our ‘nyay patra’ – that we will increase the 50% cap. Every state has this demand…PM and HM are running away from this question and are speaking on religion-based reservation. This is wrong, a lie,” Jairam Ramesh said.
Later, questioning PM Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, Jairam Ramesh opined that will PM and HM initiate the removal of 50% cap on reservations for OBC, SC and ST. Congress is saying that they’ll conduct caste census and will remove the 1992 supreme court mandated cap of 50 percent.
