Dwivedi seeks end to caste-based reservation
At a time when quota is the buzz word in politics, senior Congress leader Janardan Dwivedi has called for an end to reservation on caste lines and urged party vice-president Rahul Gandhi to introduce quota for financially weaker sections bringing all communities under its ambit. Mr. Dwivedi’s pitch to end caste-based reservation comes at a time when the Congress is pursuing minority sub-quota, supporting reservation in promotion for SCs/STs and appears favourably disposed towards reservation for Jats. Justifying his pitch for ending caste-based reservations, he said the situation has changed from the past and “now no person has the moral courage to publicly endorse casteism.” Mr. Dwivedi said that he came in politics through the youth movement in 1960s, whose main plank was to break the barriers of caste. Asked whether reservation, which was meant to be temporary when it was brought, should continue like it does now, Mr. Dwivedi said it is a “difficult and sensitive question.” The Congress leader, who maintains that his party should not have formed an alliance government in 2009 despite getting 206 seats as it had sought mandate for a Congress government, also appeared in disagreement with the concept of UPA III for 2014 saying, “Now in 2014 elections, let us be clear we will not do any compromise on principles.” He said Congress had sought support of people for party manifesto and party’s prime ministerial candidate Manmohan Singh not for UPA II.
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