Very disillusioned that there isn’t a OBC quota in reservation for girls: BJP chief Uma Bharti

By PTI

BHOPAL: Senior BJP chief Uma Bharti on Tuesday mentioned she was disillusioned that the invoice reserving 33 per cent seats for girls within the Lok Sabha and state assemblies doesn’t carve out a quota for girls from the Other Backward Classes (OBCs).

In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, she demanded that half the seats within the girls’s quota be reserved for SC/STs and OBCs, and backward-class girls from the Muslim neighborhood must also get a profit.

The constitutional modification invoice was launched within the Lok Sabha by the BJP-led Union authorities earlier within the day.

It proposes that the reservation will proceed for 15 years and there might be one-third quota for girls additionally throughout the seats reserved for SC/STs.

“I am happy that the women’s reservation bill was introduced, but I am feeling somewhat dejected because it has come without reservation for OBC women. If we do not ensure reservation for OBC women, then their faith in the BJP will be broken,” Bharti, herself a outstanding OBC chief of the BJP, advised PTI right here.

In the letter to Modi, Bharti mentioned, “The 33 per cent reservation for women in legislature is a special provision. It should be ensured that out of this 33 per cent, 50 per cent is reserved for women belonging to SC/ST and OBC communities.”

In the Panchayati Raj and native our bodies there’s a provision for particular reservation for the backward class girls, she added.

She additionally demanded that there be a provision for the ladies belonging to backward courses within the Muslim neighborhood, as recognized by the Mandal Commission.

Bharti additional reminded Modi that when an analogous invoice was launched within the Lok Sabha (when H D Deve Gowda was prime minister) she had stood up instantly to oppose it and demand modifications, and the invoice was despatched to a standing committee.

When the time got here for doing one thing for the OBCs, “we backtracked,” Bharti mentioned, speaking to reporters.

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“I was confident that the prime minister will take care of it. I wrote a letter in the morning to the PM and maintained silence till the bill was introduced. I got very disappointed on seeing that there is no OBC reservation in the bill,” she mentioned, including “I got disappointed as the chance which the backward class women were supposed to get has not been given to them.”

On the controversial statements made by DMK leaders about Sanatan Dharma, Bharti mentioned they belong to a faculty of thought that launched a motion in Tamil Nadu (a long time in the past) to “cut the tuft and wipe off tilak” (as symbols of Brahminism) however the motion couldn’t cease folks from sporting a tuft or sporting tilak or ‘Janeu’ (sacred thread).

Nor did it cease anybody from going to temples, she added.

“So when Sanatan Dharma has not suffered any damage there, why are they raising this debate from a political platform? Better leave the issue of Sanatan Dharma to the Shankaracharyas of the country,” Bharti, as soon as generally known as a firebrand Hindutva chief, added.

The agenda of growth which the prime minister specified by 2014 must be adopted, she mentioned, but additionally defended Modi’s statements on the controversy, stating that he spoke on it as a result of it was a present difficulty.

BHOPAL: Senior BJP chief Uma Bharti on Tuesday mentioned she was disillusioned that the invoice reserving 33 per cent seats for girls within the Lok Sabha and state assemblies doesn’t carve out a quota for girls from the Other Backward Classes (OBCs).

In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, she demanded that half the seats within the girls’s quota be reserved for SC/STs and OBCs, and backward-class girls from the Muslim neighborhood must also get a profit.

The constitutional modification invoice was launched within the Lok Sabha by the BJP-led Union authorities earlier within the day.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

It proposes that the reservation will proceed for 15 years and there might be one-third quota for girls additionally throughout the seats reserved for SC/STs.

“I am happy that the women’s reservation bill was introduced, but I am feeling somewhat dejected because it has come without reservation for OBC women. If we do not ensure reservation for OBC women, then their faith in the BJP will be broken,” Bharti, herself a outstanding OBC chief of the BJP, advised PTI right here.

In the letter to Modi, Bharti mentioned, “The 33 per cent reservation for women in legislature is a special provision. It should be ensured that out of this 33 per cent, 50 per cent is reserved for women belonging to SC/ST and OBC communities.”

In the Panchayati Raj and native our bodies there’s a provision for particular reservation for the backward class girls, she added.

She additionally demanded that there be a provision for the ladies belonging to backward courses within the Muslim neighborhood, as recognized by the Mandal Commission.

Bharti additional reminded Modi that when an analogous invoice was launched within the Lok Sabha (when H D Deve Gowda was prime minister) she had stood up instantly to oppose it and demand modifications, and the invoice was despatched to a standing committee.

When the time got here for doing one thing for the OBCs, “we backtracked,” Bharti mentioned, speaking to reporters.

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“I was confident that the prime minister will take care of it. I wrote a letter in the morning to the PM and maintained silence till the bill was introduced. I got very disappointed on seeing that there is no OBC reservation in the bill,” she mentioned, including “I got disappointed as the chance which the backward class women were supposed to get has not been given to them.”

On the controversial statements made by DMK leaders about Sanatan Dharma, Bharti mentioned they belong to a faculty of thought that launched a motion in Tamil Nadu (a long time in the past) to “cut the tuft and wipe off tilak” (as symbols of Brahminism) however the motion couldn’t cease folks from sporting a tuft or sporting tilak or ‘Janeu’ (sacred thread).

Nor did it cease anybody from going to temples, she added.

“So when Sanatan Dharma has not suffered any damage there, why are they raising this debate from a political platform? Better leave the issue of Sanatan Dharma to the Shankaracharyas of the country,” Bharti, as soon as generally known as a firebrand Hindutva chief, added.

The agenda of growth which the prime minister specified by 2014 must be adopted, she mentioned, but additionally defended Modi’s statements on the controversy, stating that he spoke on it as a result of it was a present difficulty.