MUMBAI, Sept 13: Workers and leaders of Maharashtra BJP on Friday held state-wide protests against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remarks on reservation during his visit to the US.
While Maharashtra BJP president Chandrashekhar Bawankule said it was necessary to stage a protest to tell people about Gandhi’s mentality against reservation, Congress leader Balasaheb Thorat accused the saffron party of spreading fake news and doing “nautanki” (drama).
Gandhi, who is in the US, told students of Georgetown University that the Congress would think of scrapping reservations when “India is a fair place”, which he said is not the case right now.
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During a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, the Leader of Opposition alleged that democracy in India for the last ten years was broken, but now it is fighting back.
The BJP announced a state-wide protest over Gandhi’s “anti-reservation” remarks.
In Mumbai, BJP city president Ashish Shelar, the party’s OBC face MLC Pankaja Munde, and several MLAs staged a demonstration.
Munde, during the protest, said reservation cannot be done away with until casteism disappears from the minds of the Mahavikas Aghadi (MVA).
She further alleged that the MVA that was responsible for Marathas losing their reservation in the Supreme Court, but they had instead targeted the BJP for it.
“Power has always been with his (Gandhi’s) family and party. There can be nothing more seditious than insulting one’s country abroad,” the BJP leader said.
Shelar sought to know the Shiv Sena (UBT) and NCP (SP)’s stand on remarks made by Gandhi.
The BJP’s Dahisar MLA Manisha Chowdhary claimed the Congress has been opposing reservations from the days of late Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru to Rahul Gandhi.
Gandhi’s “anti-reservation” stand is exposed, she said.
In Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra Housing Minister Atul Save staged a demonstration with party workers, carrying placards and raising slogans against Gandhi.
Meanwhile, slamming the BJP for staging protests, Congress leader Thorat accused the party of spreading fake news and doing “nautanki” (drama).
He pointed out that Gandhi, in his remarks, never said reservations would be done away with.
“What are BJP leaders protesting for? They don’t even feel the need to verify information. But people will not be swayed by their fake narrative. People know that it is the BJP that is anti-Constitution and anti-reservation,” Thorat wrote in a post on X. (PTI)
