Reservation policy should be reviewed : RSS chief reiterates
His comment came two days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said in Mumbai that there would be "no rethink on the reservation policy."
Speaking to RSS workers in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, Bhagwat was quoted by a daily newspaper as emphasising that he is not against reservation, but believes that the people for whom the quota policy was drawn have not benefited from it. "So it must be reviewed and debated to ensure that those who actually need the benefit of reservation, get it," he said.
Bhagwat had first suggested a review of the reservation policy in an interview last month. In Bihar, the rivals parties of the BJP made it an issue for campaign among the voters forcing the BJP defend itself. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and RJD chief Lalu Prasad alleged that the BJP, backed by its ideological mentor RSS, wants to abolish reservation to appease its upper caste vote bank and thereby deprive the socially backward of its benefits.
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