Addressing a rally in Kolar, a metropolis within the southwest Indian yelp of Karnataka, ragged MP Rahul Gandhi slammed the BJP-led centre for not offering due representation to the OBCs (Other Backward Classes) in executive jobs. Kolar is the gap of the depraved, controversial speech from 2019 that not too lengthy within the past bought Gandhi disqualified as a member of Parliament (MP) final month.
The Indian National Congress (INC) chief, as per ANI, launched a slew of assaults in opposition to the ruling executive and additionally announced poll guarantees.
“If the Congress event is voted to energy in Karnataka, then we can provide 200 units of free electricity to every family, Rs 2000 every month to females, a total of 10 Kg rice month-to-month to every family, Rs 3000 to every graduate till two years and Rs 1500 month-to-month to diploma holders,” mentioned Rahul Gandhi.
“While you happen to [BJP] can give hundreds of crores of rupees to Adani, then we can give the money to uncomfortable, females, and youths. You helped Adani wholeheartedly, and we can wholeheartedly abet the folk of the yelp,” he added.
“Disqualify me, place me in jail, ticket the leisure, does not topic,” mentioned Gandhi as he alleged that the BJP executive in Karnataka became “immersed in corruption.”
Gandhi pointed to the indifference being meted out to the OBC team, that are most new in better quantity nonetheless whose representation in executive jobs were less.
He mentioned that “reservation for SC/STs must mute be proportional to their population,” and that the union executive “must mute map shut 50 per cent cap in reservation.”
Replying to allegations that he had insulted the OBC team along with his Modi surname observation, the Congress chief mentioned that the representation of OBC and Dalits within the central executive isn’t primarily based on their population.
He in total usually known as on the BJP executive to birth the caste census file commissioned by his event-led United Revolutionary Alliance (UPA) executive in 2011.
“Handiest seven per cent of secretaries in central executive offices are from OBC and SC/ST communities. Modiji, you discuss (the welfare of) OBCs. Allow us to know what their half is within the population. While you happen to don’t ticket this, it is an insult to OBC communities.”
Abet in 2019, Rahul Gandhi, at some level of a rally in Kolar had remarked, “How attain all thieves personal the fashioned surname Modi?.”
This assertion landed him in wretchedness, and never too lengthy within the past he became found responsible in a defamation case over it, and sentenced to two years in penal complex. The penal complex sentence changed into the grounds for Gandhi’s disqualification as an MP.
Urging folks to vote for Congress in Karnataka’s upcoming elections, Gandhi mentioned “Aap Apna Kaam Karo, Hum Apna Kaam Karenge (You ticket your work and we can ticket ours).” Karnataka goes to Assembly polls on May perhaps 10. The counting of votes is scheduled for May perhaps 13.
(With inputs from agencies)
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