Three phases of Lok Sabha elections have passed and silently changed its polling strategy. However, as the elections are about to enter the fourth phase, the BJP has cleverly changed its attitude. The BJP did not dwell on the issue of “Congress party not participating in the Ram Mandir Pran Pratishtha event on January 22”, but cleverly started making noise around reserved seats. RAM to reservation.
It was early April, and Prime Minister Modi was addressing an election rally in Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh. Slamming the Congress party, he said, “The Congress party has made a lot of efforts not to build the Ram temple. But when the people of this country donated every penny to build such a beautiful temple, When the people of that temple forgave you (the Congress) all your sins and invited you to participate in ‘pran pratishtha’, you insulted Lord Ram by refusing that invitation and expelled leaders who had been there for six years in India. The top leadership of the BJP – including Home Minister Amit Shah and party president JP Nadda – have been hammering home this point over past few days.
But moving smoothly towards reservation as their new focus rather than Ram mandir issue they chose Muslim quota problem in congress ruled Karnataka Addressing a rally in Zaheerabad, Prime Minister Modi vowed that as long as “he is alive, he will not allow reservation rights under the Indian Constitution for Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes and B.C. to be allotted to Muslims at any cost”.
The first opposition casualty was Lalu Prasad Yadav whose party RJD brought India’s first caste census while it was still ruling with JDU He fell into their trap by defending religion-based quotas saying: “Reservation toh milna chahiye Musalmano ko ,Poora (मुसलमानों को मिलना चाहिए। पूरा) (Muslims must get full reservation)”.
BJP’s main campaigner did not waste any time in targeting the Indian bloc. “He (Prasad) said Muslims should get reservation, not just reservation, he said Muslims should get full reservation. What does this mean? It means they want to take away reservation rights from Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and OBC communities , and give it to the Muslims.
Nehru resurrected, Pietroda returned
As India Bloc failed to counter the BJP’s new poll rhetoric government sources quoted India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru as saying that he too was opposed to the idea of reservation. They quoted an old newspaper clipping which read: “Yesterday, Mr. Nehru, inaugurating the All-India Conference of Former Criminal Tribes here, said that he was opposed to job reservation for Scheduled Tribes members as it tended to create a problem in them. An inferior complex.
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Meanwhile Congress is trying to move away from controversy over Sam Pitroda’s racist comments — a faux-pas that forced him to resign as president of Congress Overseas. Sensing an opportunity, the BJP unofficially released another outdated video of Pitroda, in which he can be seen strongly advocating how premier educational institutions like IITs and IIMs should not have reservations.”
In one of its posts, the BJP had said that contemptuousness of a community. Nevertheless, Congress had gone overboard in granting reservations to Muslims on the basis of religion which is against the constitution.
The opposition parties were the first to suggest that BJP’s “400 paar” was not about benefits from reservations but changing the Constitution. This continues up until today as compared to when it started, it seems like the damage has decreased. Instead, it turned tables around on these same issues just as election moved deep into mandal heartland by opposition block.
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