'Quotas Are A Craze Now'
BJP president Venkaiah Naidu spoke to Outlook on upper caste reservations. Excerpts:
The Congress has stolen a march over the BJP by being the first to demand quotas for the upper castes.
The Congress says that by setting up a national commission to examine the merits of upper caste quotas, instead of bringing a constitutional amendment bill, you are dilly-dallying.
The Constitution says reservation is meant for the socially deprived, not for the poor. Doesn't this proposal go against the spirit of social justice through reservation and isn't alleviating poverty the government's job?
With governments downsizing and the public sector being privatised, the job pool is shrinking. So isn't the reservation principle being progressively diluted?
There's a demand for separate categories of OBCs in Rajasthan, on the grounds that the Jats have cornered the entire quota in the state.
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