On Sunday Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat declared that the Sangh Parivar had never opposed reservations extended to certain groups with his statement coming at a time when opposition parties are making false allegations that if the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) gets a third successive term by winning the ongoing national polls, its government will change the Constitution of India and do away with the reservation policy.
‘The Sangh is of the opinion that the reservations should be extended for as long as they are needed’, Bhagwat said at a programme at an educational institute in Hyderabad.
RSS is the BJP’s ideological mentor; in these polls, the saffron party is targeting a hattrick of parliamentary majority, having won 282 seats and 303 seats on its own in the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections, respectively. This time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a call for more than 370 seats for the BJP alone, and over 400 for the party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), in the 543-member Lower House of Parliament.
In turn the BJP has countered the Congress-led INDIA bloc’s charge by alleging that it is the grand old party, which, if voted to office, will change the Constitution and rob the Dalits and OBCs of quota benefits and prepare the ground for religion-based reservation to favour its vote-bank.”
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