Congress govt will increase reservation beyond 50% says Rahul Gandhi — Here's what BJP offers

Rahul Gandhi besides challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to pass the radical if helium increases the preservation bounds beyond 50 percent. "This is the main contented successful this elections...," helium said.

In its manifesto for the Lok Sabha Elections 2024, the Congress guarantees that it volition walk a law amendment to rise the 50 percent headdress connected reservations for SC, ST and OBC.

It besides promised the preservation of 10 percent successful jobs and educational institutions for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) for each castes and communities.

"We volition enact a instrumentality with notation to Article 15(5) of the Constitution to supply for preservation successful backstage acquisition institutions for SC, ST and OBC," the Congress' manifesto read.

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Reservation contented successful Lok Sabha 2024: What BJP offers?

Union Home Minister Amit Shah said connected Sunday that reservations for the Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) would not extremity arsenic agelong arsenic determination the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi are there.

Shah besides said that Muslim preservation is not Constitutional. He added that the BJP would scrap the Muslim preservation erstwhile it forms authorities successful Telangana and would supply the quotas for SCs, STs and OBCs.

In its manifesto, the BJP has promised to empowered women by enacting the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam to supply preservation to women successful Lok Sabha and State Legislative Assemblies.

For SC,ST and OBCs, the BJP said it volition guarantee capable practice for SC, ST and OBCs successful District-level committee, which volition beryllium established to guarantee that payment schemes scope the lowest level.

The BJP besides promised to grow livelihood opportunities for each families, including OBC, SC and ST, by measures similar doubling the MUDRA indebtedness bounds to ₹20 lakh.

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"We volition further grow the palmy schemes specified arsenic PM Svanidhi and PM Vishwakaram Yojana, among others. We volition further grow employment opportunities done Eco Tourism and Homestay," the BJP said.

It added that existing scholarships for meritorious students volition beryllium expanded truthful that nary pupil of the OBC, SC and ST families volition beryllium deprived of higher education.

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Published: 06 May 2024, 05:28 PM IST