Carrying forward the theme of social justice that Congress has been highlighting in the recent past, party leader Rahul Gandhi Thursday urged Bahujans to support it for a better future.
A day earlier, Congress said it stood firm on its commitment to enact a central law for SC/ST sub-plan and guarantee budgetary allocations in accordance with their population.
The party also recalled the enactment of the guarantee under Article 15(5), introduced by the UPA government in 2006, of reservation for OBCs, SCs and STs in private educational institutions, underlining it must be implemented immediately. That apart, it reiterated that social justice could be furthered only via a nationwide caste census.
Congress made the commitments in its ‘Nyaypath’ resolution adopted at the AICC session in Gujarat. Gandhi said on X: “Yesterday, at the AICC’s Ahmedabad session ‘Nyaypath’, Congress has taken three historic resolutions to strengthen social justice by giving a share to the Bahujans of the country. We will bring a national law and abolish 50% limit on reservation. We will give legal shape to SC/ST Sub Plan by making a central law and will give a share in budget to these sections on the basis of their population.”
He added, “We will implement right to reservation in private educational institutions for SC, ST and OBC as prescribed in Article 15(5) of the Constitution…
Our message to Bahujans of the country is clear — support us on these issues related to your future, strengthen our hands… because, ‘haath badlega haalat’.”
Congress dedicated a section in its Ahmedabad resolution to social justice as its “ideological core”.
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