'Will Remove 50% Limit, Give As Much Reservation Required': Rahul Gandhi At Madhya Pradesh Election Rally

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during his address at the election rally in Ratlam. (Image: X/ANI)

"We will give the amount of reservation required by the Dalits, Adivasis, backwards and poor," Rahul Gandhi said

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, while campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections on Monday, said that his party would remove the Supreme Court-mandated limit of 50 per cent reservation. “We will give the amount of reservation required by the Dalits, Adivasis, backwards and poor,” he said.

Rahul, whose candidature from Rae Bareli was announced last week, was addressing a rally in Madhya Pradesh’s Ratlam district. “This is an election to save Constitution. BJP and RSS want to finish it, change it. We’re trying to save it. They want to take away your rights of water, forest and land. PM Modi wants his rule.”

We want to stop him, he said, adding that public sector, reservation and health facilities are there because of the Constitution.

“All the rights that the Adivasis, backwards and Dalits get, are due to this (Constitution). BJP leaders have said very clearly that if they come to power, they will put this book aside. This is why they have given a slogan of 400 seats. They are not going to get even 150 seats,” Rahul, who is also contesting the polls from Wayanad, said.

He further said, “Their leaders have been saying that they will take away the reservation… We will increase the reservations to more than 50%. We will remove the 50% limit implemented by the court. We will give the amount of reservation required by the Dalits, Adivasis, backwards and poor.”

The Congress leader’s comments come amid the high-end battle between the NDA and the INDIA bloc in the Lok Sabha elections.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken several jibes at the Opposition party over reservation and wealth distribution.

(With agency inputs)

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