Ghaziabad: A gaggle of BJP activists from Uttar Pradesh marching in direction of the residence of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi in Delhi was stopped on the Ghazipur border by town police on Thursday.
The group, led by Uttar Pradesh minister Narendra Kashyap, was marching in direction of Gandhi’s residence to protest his remarks throughout his current go to to the US suggesting that “the reservation for backward lessons needs to be abolished”.
Delhi Police halted the march because the protesters didn’t have permission to carry the protest, based on officers.
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Deputy Commissioner of Police (Trans Hindon) Nimish Patil stated, “The police acted in accordance with the rules. The group was stopped because of lack of permission.” Kashyap, the minister of state (Unbiased Cost) for backward class welfare, informed PTI, “There’s a important OBC inhabitants in our nation. Gandhi’s assertion has harm the feelings of the OBC neighborhood. He should search forgiveness from the OBC inhabitants for his remarks made in America.” Throughout his go to to the US early this month, Gandhi informed college students on the prestigious Georgetown College that the Congress would consider scrapping reservations when “India is a good place”, which he stated just isn’t the case proper now.
Latching on to the comment of the chief of opposition within the Lok Sabha, the BJP alleged that Gandhi was in opposition to reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Different Backward Lessons, and his prejudice in opposition to the availability got here out within the open throughout his interplay with the college college students.
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