BJP slams Congress for blocking OBC bill

Bhubaneswar: Coming down heavily on the Congress and other opposition parties for blocking in the Rajya Sabha a bill to grant constitutional status to the OBC Commission, the BJP on Sunday accused them of depriving the poor of their benefits.
The Bharatiya Janata Party, at its two-day National Executive meeting here, passed a special resolution condemning the blocking and hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for granting constitutional status to the bill.
“Today, when the BJP government led by Modi has taken this step to bring in equality in the society, the Congress and other regional parties are disappointed and their frustration is obvious,” Human Resource and Development Minister Prakash Javadekar told the media.
“These parties have always suppressed the interests of the backward classes of the society and only given them false hopes.” He said the manner in which the bill was opposed in the Rajya Sabha exposed the real attitude towards backward classes.
“It is evident that despite being in power for so long, the Congress did not initiate any concrete step towards fulfilling interests of backward classes. Now when the BJP has got the mandate to rule the country, the government has achieved the goals by handling these issues on priority,” the minister added.
The resolution alleged that despite the suggestions of Kaka Kalelkar Commission (1950) and Mandal Commission (1979), the Congress governments did not take any action in this direction. (IANS)