‘ Modi is against backward class’
The Congress party on Thursday said the Modi government has dealt a bloody blow to all welfare schemes relating to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes across India by imposing sharp budgetary cuts.
A budgetary cut of ` 19,734 crore in “Scheduled Castes Sub Plan” and ` 12,406 crore in “Scheduled Tribes Sub Plan” has been imposed in the Union Budget for 201516 as compared to the Union Budget for 2014- 15 ( interim budget for 2014- 15 was presented by Congress- led UPA government).
Mr Modi also came under attack from the Congress chief spokesman Randeep Surjewala who demanded an apology from the Prime Minister as well as the BJP and the RSS alleging that they have an “anti- dalit, anti- ST and anti- backward classes mindset”. Mr Surjewala alleged that the Prime Minister is “carrying forward the RSS ideology of denying social justice and subjugating these deprived sections— Dalits, Scheduled Tribes, Backward Classes” instead of projecting himself as their messiah”.
“We demand an apology from Narendra Modi, BJP, RSS for their anti- Dalit, ST, OBC policies, decisions and mindset,” Mr Surjewala said at a time when the Bihar polls is turning out to be a keen contest with RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav even calling it a fight between backwards and upper castes.
Meanwhile, the party spokesperson Shobha Oza accused the PM of wearing different “masks” and giving “tacit approval” to communalise the situation in the wake of Dadri lynching. “The way ministers in the Modi government are raising the communal temperature in the wake of the Dadri incident and still the PM is silent suggests his tacit admission to their actions” Ms Oza said.