New Delhi. Congress on Thursday hit back at Mayawati’s attack on Rahul Gandhi, claiming that the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief has taken a contract to support the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), so her political end is necessary. Party leader Udit Raj also alleged that Mayawati feels pain whenever the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi attacks the RSS and the BJP.
Mayawati on Wednesday accused the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha of making misleading statements about reservations over a comment made by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in the US. She claimed that it was Rahul’s Congress party which did not allow the SC/ST reservation bill in promotions to be passed during its 10-year rule at the Centre.
While talking to reporters, Udit Raj hit back at Mayawati and alleged, “BJP is against reservation. Rahul Gandhi wants to strengthen reservation. When BJP is unable to defend itself, it has hired Mayawati for its defence…When Rahul Gandhi attacks RSS and BJP, Mayawati feels pain.” He claimed, “Mayawati needs to be finished (politically) because she has taken the contract and supari to support RSS and BJP. Congress has always looked at it with sympathy, otherwise BSP would not have survived for so long.”
Udit Raj said, “BSP has prepared its ground by criticizing Congress from the very beginning. They never had a physical base. Sometimes they held ‘Pardafaash Rally’ and sometimes ‘Satta Prapt Rally’. BSP always put Babasaheb Ambedkar ji in the forefront and tortured Congress emotionally. Along with this, it spread propaganda that Congress made them lose in the elections and did not give ‘Bharat Ratna’.” He said, “No one can do as much for Babasaheb Ambedkar as Congress did. It was Congress that brought Babasaheb Ambedkar to the Constituent Assembly. When Ambedkar ji became the head of the Constitution Drafting Committee, he himself had said that being a member of this committee is a big thing, but I was made the head. Then the Congress party also made him the Law Minister.”
He said that on May 20, 2007, Mayawati issued a government order which said that there will be a change in the SC-ST Atrocities Prevention Act-1989 and it will be applicable only in cases of murder and rape. Action will be taken under ordinary law in other crimes. But when we fought, the Supreme Court made a strong comment and the law was restored.
According to the Congress leader, this shows that this law was murdered by Mayawati.
Udit Raj said, “We had also fought on the issue of reservation in promotion, in which we won the case, but Mayawati ji did not complete the proceedings of the file, due to which a large number of employees were demoted in Uttar Pradesh.” He said, “Rahul Gandhi has talked about fully implementing the reservation and increasing its limit. When he talks about caste census, it is also to give rights according to the population.”