BJP will neither abolish quota nor allow anyone to do so: Shah

TIL Desk/National/Odisha/ Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah has said the central government would neither scrap the policy of reservation for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities in education and jobs nor allow anyone to do so.

Addressing a public meeting in Bhawanipatna, Odisha, he said that ‘no one can dare to change’ the reservation policy ‘as set by Dr B R Ambedkar in the Constitution’.

Shah also held the Congress and other opposition parties responsible for the deaths of nearly a dozen people in violence during a nationwide strike called by various Dalit outfits against the alleged dilution of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

“Why was the bandh call given when the prime minister assured the people that the Centre would submit a review petition on the Supreme Court judgement… 10 people died during the bandh. The Congress and other opposition parties are responsible for the deaths of these 10 people,” he said.