We are going to break barrier of fifty computer cap on quotas: Rahul Gandhi in Bihar

Rejecting outright the 50 per cent cap on caste-based reservations, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Friday vowed that “the barrier might be damaged” in whichever a part of the nation his get together got here to energy.

The Lok Sabha Chief of the Opposition made the promise in Bihar, the state which was a hotbed of the Mandal agitation over job reservations within the Nineteen Nineties, and the place polls to the meeting are seemingly in a number of months.

“I’m wondering the place this concept of a 50 per cent cap got here from. The inhabitants of the disadvantaged sections is near 90 per cent,” the previous Congress president mentioned at a ‘Samvidhan Suraksha Sammelan’ (symposium to guard the Structure) in Rajgir.

Voicing disapproval of the cap on reservations positioned by the Supreme Courtroom, Gandhi mentioned a caste census can be step one in removing the barrier.

“Once we carried out a caste survey in Telangana, which confirmed amongst different issues that Dalits, tribals and different backward courses hardly bought any authorities contracts, the chief minister of that state ordered that the 50 per cent restrict be scrapped. He was left with no alternative”, mentioned Gandhi, evoking applause. Telangana is ruled by the Congress.

“We have now damaged the barrier in Telangana and Karnataka. And the barrier might be damaged wherever else we kind a authorities,” he declared.

Gandhi’s go to to Rajgir, in Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s residence district of Nalanda, was a lot talked about because the administration had denied permission for it final month, days after he had defied comparable orders to work together with college students in Darbhanga.