NEW DELHI: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati, accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday of making misleading statements about reservation policies. She claimed that Gandhi's party failed to pass the
Bill
on SC/ST reservation in promotions during its 10-year tenure at the Centre.
The former CM also said that the Congress party only addresses the issues of SC, ST, and OBC communities when not in power but acts against their interests when in government.
"Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's clarification that he is not against reservation is clearly a misleading and false statement. During the 10 years of his active participation in the government before the BJP came to power at the Centre, he, along with the SP (Samajwadi Party), did not let the Bill for SC/ST reservation in promotions pass," Mayawati posted in Hindi on X.
She further said that the Congress's claims of increasing the reservation limit beyond 50% are untrue.
"Their claim of increasing the reservation limit in the country from 50% is also a hoax because if their intentions were clear, this work would have definitely been done during the previous Congress governments," she added.
Mayawati noted that the Congress did not effectively implement OBC or SC/ST reservations. She also warned people about the alleged conspiracy behind these actions.
"It is clear from this that when the Congress is not in power, it talks big about the welfare and interests of these neglected SC/ST/OBC communities for the sake of their votes, but when it is in power, it continuously works against their interests. People should be cautious of this conspiracy," she added.
The BSP is neither part of the BJP-led NDA nor the Opposition INDIA bloc, which includes the Congress and the SP.
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