BJP won’t abolish quota, Amit Shah tells Dalits
MUMBAI: BJP president Amit Shah on Friday termed his party as the biggest saviour of Dalits and also one that has always expressed greatest respect towards Dalit leader Babasaheb Ambedkar. Shah added there was a massive misinformation campaign going on against the BJP and said the party won’t abolish reservations and also won’t allow anyone else to do so. The Opposition’s misinformation campaign is aimed at hurting Dalit sentiments, he said. Shah also declared the BJP plan to counter the opposition propaganda.
“We shall widely celebrate Mahatma Jyotiba Phule’s birth anniversary on April 11. On April 12, all BJP MPs will go on a day-long fast in their constituencies to expose how the Opposition didn’t let Parliament work. The next day Ambedkar memorial in Delhi will be inaugurated and from April 14 to May 5, all the BJP MP, MLA, ZP, council and corporation members will go to over 20,000 villages to convey the success of Modi government in seven key schemes,” he said.
The BJP chief added it was the BJP that has accelerated development of Ambedkar memorials at Mumbai, London, Delhi, Nagpur and Mau. “The Congress had opposed his entry to Parliament. It deprived him of Bharat Ratna. As against that we have cared more for his honour.”
Earlier, at a mammoth BJP rally, Shah compared the opposition unity with coming together of cat, dogs, snakes and mongooses frightened due to rising flood waters.
Shah said, “All parties such as SP, BSP, TMC, and Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP, their ideologies do not match but the fear of Narendra Modi is bringing them together, and hence I used the example of snakes, mongooses, cats and dogs fearing the rising floods.”
He also said the Centre was seriously working on bringing petrol under GST. “The petrol prices are still lower than what they were during the UPA rule,” Shah said and added that all concerns of the states were being addressed to bring petrol under the GST.