Shimla: BJP on Tuesday kicked off its Lok Sabha poll campaign in Himachal Pradesh with partys National President J P Nadda unleashing a scathing attack on the Opposition, especially West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who he accused of diverting the OBC benfits to the Muslim community.
Addressing press conferences here, Nadda alleged that Mamata Banerjees actions were always biased and communal and otivated by vote bank politics.
He alleged that the Constitutional rights of reservation given to the OBCs were being openly violated in the Opposition-ruled states like West Bengal, Bihar, Rajasthan and Punjab.
He trained his guns on the Mamata Banerjee government for openly offering the OBC quota in West Bengal to Muslims and depriving the non-Muslim backward class people of their legitimate rights.
Nadda said this violated the reservation rights given to the OBCs by the Constitution.
He alleged that the benefit of 91.5 pc reservation in West Bengal was extended to Muslim OBC, while the non-Muslims were being deprived of their rights.
Nadda said that out of 179 castes recorded as OBCs as many as 118 castes belonged to the Muslim community in West Bengal.
Nadda also accused Mamata Banerjees party TMC of extending the OBC status to illegal Bangladeshi and Rohingya immigrants with caste certificates.
He termed the matter a serious conspiracy to give direct benefits to the infiltrators which revealed how the TMC government was extending state largesse to the anti-national forces.
Referring to the 2011 census figures, Nadda said there were 108 OBC castes in Bengal, out of which 53 belonged to the Muslim community and 55 to the Hindu.
A total of 71 new castes were added to this list out of which 65 were Muslim and only six were Hindu castes, he said.
The population of Bengal is 70.5 percent Hindu and 27 per Muslim, but the latter is being given the benefit of 91.5 percent under OBC reservation, Nadda alleged.
He stated that a similar situation existed in Rajasthan, Punjab and Bihar.
The OBCs in JD(U)-RJD ruled Bihar are not even given caste certificates and their rights are being strangled.
In Punjab, OBC reservation is 25 percent but only 12 percent people in the category are getting the benefits.
Thirteen percent are still deprived of their rights and are still waiting to get the benefits.
Referring to Congress-ruled Rajasthan, Nadda said seven districts in the state had been declared as tribal and the people of these districts are being deprived of the benefits of OBC reservations.
He said the OBC Commission should properly investigate all these facts so that other backward class people can get justice.
(With UNI inputs)
