The organisation believed reservation should continue as long as it was necessary for those who needed it, provided it was for reasons of backwardness and lack of parity in terms of their living or social standing, the RSS chief said
Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday said the Sangh had never opposed reservation given to certain groups, and maintained that the video making the rounds on social media, in which he is seen speaking against quotas in a meeting, is fake.
Mr. Bhagwat’s denial came amid a war of words between the BJP and the Congress in the ongoing General Election campaigning as Opposition parties are claiming that the BJP, if it returned to power for the third time, would rewrite the Constitution and do away with the reservation policy.
Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday said the Sangh had never opposed reservation given to certain groups, and maintained that the video making the rounds on social media, in which he is seen speaking against quotas in a meeting, is fake.
Mr. Bhagwat’s denial came amid a war of words between the BJP and the Congress in the ongoing General Election campaigning as Opposition parties are claiming that the BJP, if it returned to power for the third time, would rewrite the Constitution and do away with the reservation policy.
“A video is being circulated on social media platforms claiming that the [Rashtriya Swayamsevak] Sangh is against reservation…. and that we can’t say this in open. I am visible taking a meeting in the video…. I say that the video is fake and that I have never said this,” Mr. Bhagwat said while speaking at the opening of a Vidya Bharati Vignana Kendra school in Hyderabad.
He also clarified that the RSS had always stood for reservation, as sanctioned and guaranteed under the Constitution, and that the organisation believed reservation should continue as long as it was necessary for those who needed it, provided it was for reasons of backwardness and lack of parity in terms of their living or social standing.
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