NEW DELHI: BJP MP Anurag Thakur, whose caste assault on Rahul Gandhi in Lok Sabha has triggered a storm, on Thursday doubled down on his assaults towards the Congress chief and invoked remarks of former Prime Ministers Rajiv Gandhi, Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru to show how his household has at all times been towards reservations for the backwards.
The BJP chief, whose Lok Sabha speech was shared by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on social media, claimed that Rahul’s father, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, had referred to backwards and dalits as fools.”These are the identical folks whose ancestors have referred to dalits and backwards as fools. These (Rajiv Gandhi) who known as others idiot, at the moment have variety of fools of their home,” Anurag Thakur stated attacking the previous Prime Minister.
The BJP MP then learn out elements of report primarily based on an interview given by Rajiv Gandhi to Navbharat Occasions on March 3, 1985.
“Rajiv Gandhi feels that the availability of reservation for the backwards whereas framing the Structure has been politicised drastically up to now. Time has come for a recent rethink on all these provisions. People who find themselves really backward and oppressed ought to get the good thing about reservations. However the complete nation will endure by increasing its scope in numerous areas to encourage fools,” Anurag Thakur quoted from the media report.
“I ask the tremendous clever son of former Prime Minister to clarify if the backward lessons had been fools within the eyes of his father. Will Congress condemn this comment? Will the grand previous social gathering cross a decision towards this comment?” the BJP MP requested.
Reacting to the storm raised by his speech, Anurag Thakur stated: “Some folks’s sense of entitlement has been damage by my speech in Lok Sabha. Because of this their complete ecosystem has raised a storm. These privileged folks assume that solely they’ve the precise to ask questions.”
The BJP chief additionally accused Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru of going all out to disclaim reservations to the backward lessons. He charged the Congress leaders of placing hurdles within the implementation of stories by the Mandal and Kaka Kalelkar commissions.
Thakur went on to assert that there’s widespread doubt about Rahul Gandhi’s intentions amongst OBC, SC, Dalit, and tribal communities attributable to his household’s legacy of opposing reservation. “Folks doubt Rahul Gandhi as a result of he’s from a household that opposed reservation,” he stated.
On Tuesday, Rahul Gandhi had accused Anurag Thakur of “abusing and insulting” him in the course of the Lok Sabha dialogue on the Union Finances after the 2 leaders had been engaged in a heated alternate.
“These whose caste shouldn’t be identified, discuss in regards to the caste-census. I wish to remind the Speaker that on this Home itself, a former prime minister RG-1 (Rajiv Gandhi) had opposed reservation for OBCs,” the BJP MP had stated.
In response, Rahul Gandhi stated, “Whoever raises the problems of Adivasi, Dalit and the backward, is abused. I’ll settle for these abuses willingly…Anurag Thakur has abused me and insulted me, however I don’t need any apology.”
The BJP chief, whose Lok Sabha speech was shared by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on social media, claimed that Rahul’s father, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, had referred to backwards and dalits as fools.”These are the identical folks whose ancestors have referred to dalits and backwards as fools. These (Rajiv Gandhi) who known as others idiot, at the moment have variety of fools of their home,” Anurag Thakur stated attacking the previous Prime Minister.
The BJP MP then learn out elements of report primarily based on an interview given by Rajiv Gandhi to Navbharat Occasions on March 3, 1985.
“Rajiv Gandhi feels that the availability of reservation for the backwards whereas framing the Structure has been politicised drastically up to now. Time has come for a recent rethink on all these provisions. People who find themselves really backward and oppressed ought to get the good thing about reservations. However the complete nation will endure by increasing its scope in numerous areas to encourage fools,” Anurag Thakur quoted from the media report.
“I ask the tremendous clever son of former Prime Minister to clarify if the backward lessons had been fools within the eyes of his father. Will Congress condemn this comment? Will the grand previous social gathering cross a decision towards this comment?” the BJP MP requested.
Reacting to the storm raised by his speech, Anurag Thakur stated: “Some folks’s sense of entitlement has been damage by my speech in Lok Sabha. Because of this their complete ecosystem has raised a storm. These privileged folks assume that solely they’ve the precise to ask questions.”
The BJP chief additionally accused Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru of going all out to disclaim reservations to the backward lessons. He charged the Congress leaders of placing hurdles within the implementation of stories by the Mandal and Kaka Kalelkar commissions.
Thakur went on to assert that there’s widespread doubt about Rahul Gandhi’s intentions amongst OBC, SC, Dalit, and tribal communities attributable to his household’s legacy of opposing reservation. “Folks doubt Rahul Gandhi as a result of he’s from a household that opposed reservation,” he stated.
On Tuesday, Rahul Gandhi had accused Anurag Thakur of “abusing and insulting” him in the course of the Lok Sabha dialogue on the Union Finances after the 2 leaders had been engaged in a heated alternate.
“These whose caste shouldn’t be identified, discuss in regards to the caste-census. I wish to remind the Speaker that on this Home itself, a former prime minister RG-1 (Rajiv Gandhi) had opposed reservation for OBCs,” the BJP MP had stated.
In response, Rahul Gandhi stated, “Whoever raises the problems of Adivasi, Dalit and the backward, is abused. I’ll settle for these abuses willingly…Anurag Thakur has abused me and insulted me, however I don’t need any apology.”
