- Jharkhand does not get help from the center
- Opposition leader attacks BJP, says we will fight to protect it
4 p.m. News Network
Ranchi. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi continued to attack the BJP during the election campaign in Jharkhand. He said there is a choice of ideologies in Jharkhand. On one side is the Indian Alliance, which protects the Constitution and wants to run a government of the poor and tribals. On the other side are those forces that want to crush the Constitution. He said senior leaders of the BJP and the RSS have also said that they want to change the Constitution. We will conduct a caste census. Through this we will eliminate the 50 percent reserve limit. In Jharkhand, we will increase ST reservations from 26 per cent to 28 per cent, SC reservations from 10 per cent to 12 per cent and OBC reservations from 14 per cent to 27 per cent.
Rahul Gandhi said that today the MSP of paddy for farmers is Rs 2,400 per quintal. If our government is formed, it will give Rs 3,200 per quintal of rice to the farmers of Jharkhand. In the next 5 years we will try to provide employment to 10 lakh youth. Rs 1.36 lakh crore belongs to the Jharkhand government, the central government is not giving this money. This is land compensation money, coal royalty money and the BJP government is working against Jharkhand. Rahul Gandhi said that everyone knows what is happening in Manipur. The Prime Minister has not gone there yet. I have been to Manipur. We have asked the government to stop the violence. Someone’s selfishness is there.
‘It was our mistake not to conduct the caste census during the UPA government’
The Congress leader said the UPA and Congress came up with the idea of caste census. It’s our fault we didn’t implement it then. We have a government in Telangana and we also have a government in Karnataka. Here we are practicing it in detail. We are preparing questions for the caste census through public debate. He said we have a very clear vision for the caste census. I guarantee you that we will implement the caste census. This will be a great step in the transformation and development of this country. BJP people don’t even know how to do this. Even if they want to.
