Kumar Uttam / HT
The ‘backward’ narrative under Modi-Shah duo was going according to plan until an interview by the RSS chief, Mohan Bhagwat, to Sangh mouthpieces Panchajanya and Organiser. In it, Bhagwat said that reservation had been politicised since inception, and called for a committee to be formed to decide who should get reservation and for how long.
As far as incidences of friendly fire go, this was pretty lethal, given the fact that the usually Brahmin-led RSS is known to favour reservation based on economic criteria, and has always been suspicious of benefits given to OBCs being cornered by one or two groups.
The BJP’s bete noires in Bihar, two of the country’s most seasoned politicians, needed no second invitation to lam the party: Such a statement from the “real boss of the BJP” was significant, they said.
How rattled the BJP was could be gauged by the fact that general secretary Ram Madhav sent out a clarificatory tweet and the party’s articulate face Ravi Shankar Prasad was pressed into service to virtually distance the party from the remarks of the RSS chief. more
The ‘backward’ narrative under Modi-Shah duo was going according to plan until an interview by the RSS chief, Mohan Bhagwat, to Sangh mouthpieces Panchajanya and Organiser. In it, Bhagwat said that reservation had been politicised since inception, and called for a committee to be formed to decide who should get reservation and for how long.
As far as incidences of friendly fire go, this was pretty lethal, given the fact that the usually Brahmin-led RSS is known to favour reservation based on economic criteria, and has always been suspicious of benefits given to OBCs being cornered by one or two groups.
The BJP’s bete noires in Bihar, two of the country’s most seasoned politicians, needed no second invitation to lam the party: Such a statement from the “real boss of the BJP” was significant, they said.
How rattled the BJP was could be gauged by the fact that general secretary Ram Madhav sent out a clarificatory tweet and the party’s articulate face Ravi Shankar Prasad was pressed into service to virtually distance the party from the remarks of the RSS chief. more
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