Bahujan Samaj Celebration (BSP) chief Mayawati on Sunday mentioned the demand to implement reservation on financial grounds towards the reservations supplied to the SC, ST and OBC communities within the Structure will not be acceptable or within the curiosity of the nation.

In a put up on X, she wrote, “The individuals who gathered at Janta Mantar lately demanding reservation on financial grounds mustn’t have interaction in or enable low cost politics on such an necessary and delicate problem as reservation. They need to not undertake any motion concerning reservation that harms the constitutional efforts to construct an egalitarian society and a developed nation.”
The federal government mustn’t present any shelter or safety to anti-reservation parts. This is able to be within the broader curiosity of the nation and the individuals, she demanded.
Relating to the constitutional provision of reservation made for the individuals of the SC, ST, and OBC communities who’ve been victims of the inhumanity of casteism for hundreds of years within the nation, Bhim Rao Ambedkar had mentioned that “abandoning casteism is the best patriotism”. Subsequently, it could be extra acceptable for individuals to show true patriotism, the BSP chief mentioned.
So far as offering reservation on financial grounds is anxious, the central and state governments spend appreciable authorities funds yearly on not only one however quite a few programmes for poverty eradication. Nonetheless, if the individuals of the nation don’t obtain the right advantages as a result of prevalent corruption and different points, this can be a direct fault of the governmental system, she claimed.
As well as, the brand new system of reservation on financial grounds can also be in place within the nation, however even its correct advantages are usually not reaching the poor households of the upper-caste society. Relatively, there’s extra deception in it, Mayawati mentioned.
In actuality, the corrupt and casteist administrative system has by no means correctly carried out the constitutional constructive provisions of reservation on the bottom attributable to which the individuals of the SC, ST, and OBC communities, even after such a protracted interval since independence, proceed to endure the struggling of poverty, casteist hatred, exploitation, atrocities, and the poison of casteism daily at each stage with out respite, she alleged.
Lashing out on the Congress, the BSP chief mentioned, “On the identical day when a dharna was organised at Janta Mantar, senior Congress chief Rahul Gandhi sat on a dharna for a number of hours exterior the Parliament police station to get an FIR registered within the case of a sufferer, to which the celebration has no objection.”
“Close to the place at Jantar Mantar, a dharna-protest was additionally underway to finish the reservation given to Dalits and the exploited on the premise of caste, but neither he (Rahul Gandhi) nor every other Congress chief went there to cause with the protestors, which clearly reveals their nonetheless anti-reservation mindset in the direction of the SC/ ST/ OBC sections,” she claimed.