BJP respects backward communities, Opp only makes claims: Shivraj Chouhan

The minister was addressing a BJP backward caste morcha event in Patna, organised in the memory of freedom fighter Ramphal Mandal, a Dhanuk from Sitamarhi, who was executed for killing four officials during the Quit India Movement.

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Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan with Bihar Deputy Chief Ministers Samrat Choudhary, Vijay Kumar Sinha and BJP state president Dilip Jaiswal in Patna, Friday. (PTI Photo)

Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday praised the Narendra Modi government for its efforts to uplift the backward classes and accused the Congress-led opposition of merely offering “lip service” to the cause.

“Our opponents just make tall claims. They have never respected the backward castes. If anyone has actually respected the backward castes, it is the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Modi ji gave constitutional status to the OBC Commission… Be it the Kendriya Vidyalayas or other institutions, it is the Modi government that took steps to ensure that backward children study there,” said the senior BJP leader who belongs to the OBC Kirar caste.

Chouhan’s remarks come at a time when the BJP is facing pointed attacks from the Congress and the social justice parties of north India over the matter of reservation for backward classes.

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The minister was addressing a BJP backward caste morcha event in Patna, organised in the memory of freedom fighter Ramphal Mandal, a Dhanuk from Sitamarhi, who was executed for killing four officials during the Quit India Movement.

Chouhan is a popular OBC face of the BJP whose address is being seen as a signal to the OBCs and EBCs, who, but for the Yadavs, were with the BJP in a significant manner over the last few years, but seem to have got electorally scattered in the recent LS polls.

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