Chandigarh/Delhi, June 17: BJP National General Secretary Tarun Chugh on Tuesday accused the Congress of deliberately misleading the nation on caste census and said the party had a long-standing history of betraying OBCs and marginalized communities.
Citing the Karnataka government’s retreat on its ₹165-crore caste survey, Chugh said the Congress had no intention of delivering justice to the backward classes.
“The entire survey was a political gimmick, and now their U-turn exposes their hypocrisy,” he said.
He reminded that Congress leaders across four generations have opposed social justice. “From Nehru rejecting the Kaka Kalelkar Report, to Indira and Rajiv Gandhi’s resistance to the Mandal Commission, and Rahul Gandhi questioning reservations abroad—the Congress has never stood with the deprived.”
Chugh also hit back at the Congress for accusing the Modi government of shelving the caste census. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi is committed to conducting it during the upcoming national census,” he said.
Slamming the Congress for “appeasement politics,” Chugh asked whether reservation benefits would be decided by data or the Gandhi family’s whims.
He said the BJP had implemented the Mandal Commission and given constitutional status to the NCBC, unlike Congress which only used social justice as a slogan.
“For us, OBC empowerment is a matter of principle, not propaganda. The Congress continues to treat it as a tool for political convenience. But the people of India won’t be misled anymore,” he asserted.
