Mayawati Targets Congress, SP Over Reservation Policies, Urges Communities to Stay Cautious

Mayawati, chief of the Bahujan Samaj Party, has launched a sharp attack on the Indian National Congress and the Samajwadi Party over their stance on reservation and welfare of SC, ST, and OBC communities.

In a social media post, In the matter of constitutional/legal rights, etc., of the country’s SC, ST, and OBC communities, the Congress, which changes its color like a chameleon, is the same party that, now talking about these categories in women’s reservation, never took any initiative during its central government to fulfill their reservation quotas in any sector.

Nor did it implement the 27 percent reservation for the OBC community in government jobs and education as per the Mandal Commission report, which was eventually implemented in the government of former Prime Minister Shri V.P. Singh only through the tireless efforts of the BSP, as is well known.

Similarly, in U.P., to provide OBC benefits to backward Muslims, the SP government had shelved the report of the Backward Classes Commission that came in July 1994 and did not implement it, which was then immediately implemented by the first BSP government here on June 3, 1995, and now the same SP, changing its color for its political interests, is talking about giving separate reservation to their women.

Thus, like in other cases, in this matter too, the SP adopts a different stance when not in power, but when in government, it adopts a different narrow casteist and discriminatory attitude. Therefore, all these communities must always remain cautious of such deceptive and double-faced parties; only then can something better become possible.

As for the question of delimitation based on the previous (2011) census for women’s reservation, the only thing to say about this is that if it has to be implemented quickly for whatever reasons, then it has to be done on the basis of this same census, and if the Congress party were in power at the center currently, this party too would have taken the same step as the BJP.

In sum, the purport of saying this is that no party in the country has been serious about the real interests, welfare, and shaping the future, etc., of the SC, ST, OBC, and Muslim communities in any matter.

Therefore, in the matter of women’s reservation, whatever these categories are getting now, they should accept it for the time being, and in this matter, when a better time comes ahead, proper attention will be paid to their interests—meaning, they should not fall for anyone’s inducements because they themselves have to stand on their own feet and make their society self-reliant and strong. This is the advice.