Jharsuguda: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Thursday mentioned that Prime Minister Narendra Modi doesn’t belong to the Other Backward Caste (OBC) neighborhood as he was born in a common class. Addressing a public rally throughout the Odisha leg of Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra right here, the Wayanad MP mentioned, “Whenever BJP workers come to you, tell them one thing that our Prime Minister lied to the entire country that he belonged to the backward class. He was not born in a backward class, he belongs to the general caste. You tell this to every BJP worker.”
This comes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi lately in Parliament referred to as himself ‘sabse bada OBC’ (the largest OBC) and accused the Congress of indulging in hypocrisy and adopting double requirements whereas coping with leaders of Backward communities.
“Congress party and UPA government did not deliver justice with OBCs. A few days ago, Karpoori Thakur ji was conferred with Bharat Ratna. In 1970, when he became Bihar CM, what was not done to destabilise his government? Congress can’t tolerate OBCs…They keep counting how many OBCs are there in government. Can’t you (Congress) see the biggest OBC here (pointing towards himself)?” PM Modi mentioned in his reply to the ‘Motion of Thanks’ on the President’s Address in Lok Sabha on Monday.
PM Modi continued his assault on the UPA authorities and mentioned that the earlier authorities didn’t ship justice to OBCs.
“During the UPA Government, an extra-constitutional body was formed. The government could not have its way before that body. National Advisory Council – did it have any OBC members? Find out,” he added.
The Odisha leg of the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra is scheduled to be accomplished this afternoon earlier than occurring a two-day break from February 9-10. The yatra will resume on February 11 from Chhattisgarh.
Earlier on Wednesday, the twenty fifth day of the Nyay Yatra, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, visited Vedvyas Dham within the Sundergarh district of Western Odisha. The cave of this temple is taken into account to be the place the place sage and poet Ved Vyas ji composed the Mahabharata.
Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra rolled out from Manipur’s Thoubal on January 14. The yatra will cowl over 6,700 kilometres over 67 days, traversing via 110 districts. It will cowl a distance of 6,713 km, straddling 100 Lok Sabha constituencies and 337 meeting segments and masking 110 districts.
The yatra will conclude in Mumbai on March 20, after 67 days.
A follow-up to the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ which noticed Rahul Gandhi cowl greater than 3,000 kilometres on foot–from Kanya Kumari to Srinagar–the Yatra 2.0 is following a hybrid format.
