BJP working to abolish reservation

Bengaluru: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati on Sunday alleged that the BJP was working towards abolishing the reservation system by going in for large-scale privatisation of government-run institutions.

Speaking at a BSP convention organised as part of the party’s campaign in South India, Mayawati said the BJP-led NDA government was working with an anti-reservation mindset.

“There is no reservation in the private sector. The government’s move in going for privatisation of public sector units is a step towards doing away with caste-based reservation,” she claimed.

Mayawati said that the NDA government was targeting opposition leaders by conducting CBI and Income-Tax raids on them. “The NDA wants to portray the opposition leaders as corrupt when the fact is they themselves are the most corrupt,” she said.

Mayawati accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of spoiling the communal harmony in the country for electoral gains. Atrocities against SC/STs were also on the rise in the Modi regime, she said. Mayawati said the BJP had been making baseless charges against her, including she being an “agent” of the CIA and selling the party’s Rajya Sabha seats.

Party workers from Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry participated in the convention.