BJP shedding crocodile tears on OBC reservation order of HC

Lucknow: Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday alleged that Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) which is “anti-reservation” is shedding crocodile tears on reservation to Other Backwards Class (OBC) in local body polls.
In a statement issued here, Akhilesh said, “BJP is shedding crocodile tears on reservation to OBC in local body election. Today BJP has taken away the reservation rights of backward people, tomorrow it will also take away the reservation given to Dalit by Babasaheb.”
He said the BJP government has not only cheated them backwards but also conspired to destroy the constitution given by Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar. “The decision to end reservation for OBCs in civic elections is unfortunate. The facts were deliberately not presented before the court. 60 percent of the population of Uttar Pradesh has been deprived of reservation. The arbitrary process was done by the BJP only for its own benefit,” he alleged.
Akhilesh said SP has always fought for social justice by imbibing the ideas of Dr Ram Manohar Lohia and former Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan Singh. “SP demanded caste census and social justice. BJP is scared of this fight for justice by SP. Earlier, it also lied on 17 most backward castes,” he said.
He said the anti-backward intent of the BJP government has become clear. “What the BJP is not able to do on its own, it gets it done through Public Interest Litigation (PIL). BJP’s character and face has got exposed in front of the whole world. Those who used to call themselves well-wishers of the backward class are looking like bonded laborers in BJP today,” he said. (UNI)