BJP holds outreach events for OBCs, Dalits

LUCKNOW :The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday reached out to the other backward castes and the Dalits with deputy chief ministers Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma addressing separate gatherings in this connection.

Maurya held a meeting of darzi (tailors) community as part of the party efforts to continue its connect with OBCs ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls in UP.

He assured the community that their demand for a silai kadhai board (stitching, weaving

› We will ensure that the benefits of reservation reach all and towards this we have already started work and results will be visible soon

KESHAV PRASAD MAURYA, deputy chief minister

board) will be put before chief minister Yogi Adityanath.

Maurya said the Bharatiya Janata Party government had already started looking into the problems that the most backward castes faced.

“We will ensure that the benefits of reservation reach all and towards this we have already started work and results will be visible soon.

He said, “The opposition parties are busy trying to break OBC unity. Modiji has seen poverty from up close and hence he is trying to do his best to uplift the lot of poor and the OBCs. Ujjawala gas, PM’s housing scheme, clean India campaign are all intended towards improving the lot of the poor and the backwards.”

Maurya also listed steps like Ayushman Bharat scheme that provides for Rs 5 lakh health insurance cover to poor, power for all, increasing the MSPs of various crops and construction of toilets as steps that were undertaken by the Bharatiya Janata Party government with the poor in mind.

Addressing a meeting of BJP’s SC/ST cell, deputy chief minister Dinesh Sharma said some political parties had limited Baba Saheb Dr BR Ambedkar to photo frames. Except the BJP, nobody had worked for Dalit pride, he said. He assured the gathering that the government will now allow injustice to anyone.

He said the BJP had won 95% of the reserved seats in the state.