Accused by leaders of Bihar’s Grand Alliance of planning to tweak the State’s reservation policy if it were to come to power, party President Amit Shah on Friday reaffirmed the BJP’s support for the quota system and charged rivals with “misleading” the people on the matter.
“BJP steadfastly supports the reservation policy and does not want any change whatever in the existing quota system,” he said at an election meeting here.
Charging RJD supremo Lalu Prasad and Chief Minister and senior JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar with “misleading” the electorate by telling them that the BJP would “tweak” the quota law in the event of being voted to power in Bihar, Shah asked the party workers to explain the saffron party’s “consistent stand” in favour of the reservation policy, to the people. The BJP chief lashed out at the alliance stalwarts for not extending a customary ‘thank you’ to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for announcing a special package of ₹1.25 lakh crore to the poll-bound State, besides committing an additional ₹40,000 crore for completing of ongoing infrastructure projects in Bihar.