Saving quota priority: INLD-BSP

Tribune News Service

Palwal, August 10

Alleging that both the BJP and the Congress parties had been working against the interests of the SC and STs , the BSP and the INLD gave a call to prevent both the parties from coming to power in the state in the upcoming Assembly elections in the state.

BSP national coordinator Akash Anand and INLD leader Abhay Chautala, who addressed a joint meeting of the party workers at Prithla here today, cautioned the people on the issue of reservation, claiming that that present regime wanted to wipe off the reservation completely and this would make the poor and underprivileged sections of society suffer in view of the wrong policies.

Anand said the alliance of the BSP and the INLD would safeguard the reservation and basic rights of the people. He urged people to reject both the BJP and the Congress as they had failed to live up to their expectations. He said BSP supremo Mayawati had asked him to tell people about the threats posed to the tenets of the Constitution due to anti-people policies of the present government.

Describing the INLD-BSP alliance as the third front, Abhay said both the Congress and the BJP had been following a similar policy on the reservation and the government jobs, he said unemployment had emerged as one of the major problems in the state, the present rule wanted to exploit the jobless in the name of contractual jobs given through the HKRN portal. He said the INLD- BSP government would not only scrap the anti-people policies of the BJP, but would fill two lakh government vacancies immediately if it came to power.

Taking dig at Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda over his statement that Vinesh Phogat should be sent to the Rajya Sabha, the INLD leader claimed that no sportsperson had been sent to Parliament during the Congress rule in the state. He demanded that Phogat should be treated as gold medalliast as injustice had been done to her. Hundreds of workers and supporters had gathered in the meeting that was held for the first time in the district after the formation of the alliance.