LUCKNOW: UP minister and state BJP OBC morcha chief Narendra Kashyap on Thursday said that the party would launch an eight day campaign beginning April 6 -- which happens to be BJP's foundation day -- to reach out to the OBC and expose opposition's attempts to exploit the backward class community.
This will be part of the nationwide OBC campaign, "Gao Gaon Ghar Ghar Chalo", scheduled to be launched by BJP national president JP Nadda and OBC Morcha's National President, K. Laxman in Haryana State's Manesar district.
Addressing reporters at the state party office, Kashyap said that the morcha would reach out to 15,000 villages and all urban local bodies in the state. The drive assumes significance in the wake of recent disqualification of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha following his conviction by a Surat court in a defamation case involving PM Narendra Modi. Even as the Congress upped the ante, the BJP sought to turn the table on the grand old party alleging that Rahul's remarks insulted the backward classes.
Kashyap said that under the previous governments of SP, BSP and Congress, the backward class people were cheated. "When they are in the government, the opposition exploits the backward class people. They pretend to be a well wisher of the OBC after they are ousted from power," he said, adding that the backward and extremely backward society have become aware that only PM Narendra Modi and the CM Yogi Adityanath take decisions in their interest.
He said that PM Modi not only gave representation to the OBC leaders in his cabinet, but also got a constitutional status to the OBC Commission on the lines of the SC/ST Commission. After the formation of the BJP government, the budget for OBCs was increased by 51 percent and appointments were made for assistant professors and other posts in educational universities of India according to the reservation plan. He said that OBC morcha will organize programs on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Jyotiba Phule in every district, municipality and nagar panchayat on April 11.
