BJP selling PSUs to scrap reservations, says Rahul

The BJP is selling Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) to scrap reservations, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said. He said that the BJP’s idea is to abolish reservations by privatising all PSUs one after the other and that Prime Minister Modi sold airports, ports and major companies. INDIA is trying hard to defeat the BJP’s ‘conspiracies’, Rahul added. Addressing the Narsapur Congress Jana Jatara public meeting on Thursday, Rahul said that the poor got justice only after the Constitution came into force. Well-known intellectuals wrote the Constitution after working hard on that for years. However, the BJP is saying that they will change the Constitution, he said. The SCs, STs, BCs, who constitute 90 per cent of the population are not getting their rightful share of power. Education, jobs and voting rights came through the Constitution. However, the BJP and the RSS are conspiring to scrap reservations along with the Constitution, he said. Stating that the Congress will safeguard the Constitution, Rahul declared that the LS elections are a battle between two alliances, one is INDIA which will protect the Constitution and the other is NDA which is thinking of changing it. He said that the people got democratic rights through the Constitution and that the Congress will not remain silent if the Constitution is changed. Rahul said that the wealth of the nation is going into the ‘hands of billionaires.’ Modi is working for just 25 people and he wants to change the Constitution, he added. He declared that the Congress would conduct a caste census immediately after coming to power and would increase reservations for SCs, STs and BCs based on their population. He said that there are 50 per cent OBCs, 15 per cent Dalits and eight per cent Adivasis. He said that minorities who constitute 15 per cent of the population are in the eight per cent general category. All these groups add up to 90 per cent of the population. They have no share in power, he said. “Leaders who hail from 2 to 3 per cent of the population are running this nation. Entire wealth is in their hands. However, we will change politics after coming to power. We will give priority to oppressed groups. We are going to start a historic programme. One cannot imagine it even in a dream. We have prepared a scheme to ‘eliminate poverty.’ We will prepare a list of farmers, labourers, Dalits and Adivasis after INDIA comes to power. We will select one woman from every family and deposit Rs 1 lakh in their bank accounts,” Rahul said. He said that Modi is working for Adani and he demonetised currency notes as part of it. “I am coming up with a new scheme. We will create 30 lakh jobs. Modi ‘waived’ the loans of crorepatis. We will waive the loans of farmers and will provide MSP to them,” Rahul added.