New Delhi: The Opposition’s INDIA alliance didn’t want Nitish Kumar, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi stated Tuesday, in first feedback on the Bihar chief minister’s n-th volte face final week.
At a rally in Bihar’s Purnea, Gandhi stated the mahagathbandhan in Bihar — which is now left with the Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) after Nitish pulled out to rejoin the Bharatiya Janata Celebration — would proceed to combat for social justice.
“We don’t need Nitish Kumar,” Gandhi informed the viewers throughout his ongoing Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra.
Gandhi additionally cracked a joke on the rally on the alacrity with which Kumar adjustments events.
“He takes a U-turn the moment there is a bit of pressure on him,” Gandhi stated, including that Kumar obtained caught with the caste census.
“I told him that he had to conduct the caste census… as did the RJD. The other side put pressure on him because the BJP does not want an X-Ray of this country… then everybody will know how many OBCs, Dalits and tribals are there in India,” Gandhi stated.
He stated the BJP by no means needed a caste survey. “It wants to distract people from the actual issue — social justice. Nitishji got stuck in the middle and the BJP opened a door for him. Nitishji fled through that door,” Gandhi informed the rally.
The Bihar authorities was the primary state to carry a caste census final 12 months, the place knowledge confirmed that different backward and intensely backward lessons constituted 63 p.c of the state’s inhabitants of 13 crore.
The survey confronted main opposition from the BJP which maintained a census was a statutory course of below a central laws and that the legislation empowered solely the central authorities to conduct it.
The Supreme Court docket, which heard petitions towards the survey, nevertheless refused to halt the train as no violation had been reported in it. Previous to that, the Patna Excessive Court docket had additionally dismissed comparable appeals.
At Purnea, Rahul reiterated that the nation wanted an “X-Ray”. “Let us know which community has what population in this country. How many from general caste, how many OBC, how many farmers, how many labourers, how many tribals, how many Dalits, how many rich, poor and hungry?” he stated.
He stated step one to social justice was this “X-Ray”. “We may need to do an MRI later, but first we need an X-Ray,” the Congress chief stated.
The INDIA alliance was dealt the primary blow final week when Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee stated her get together would go it alone within the state as they have been uninterested in ready for the Congress to reply to a seat-sharing method.
The identical day, Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) chief and Punjab Chief Minister Bhangwant Mann stated the get together would win Punjab 13-0.
The cherry on the cake was Nitish Kumar’s change late final week, when he walked out of the grand alliance with the RJD and Congress, and patched up with BJP as soon as once more, having left it simply over 18 months in the past.
Kumar was sworn in Sunday as chief minister for the ninth document time, and shaped the current authorities with assist of the BJP.
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