AHMEDABAD: BJP President Amit Shah today said that the Patidar quota stir in Gujarat was politically motivated and this reality would become clearer by observing the activities or trends of those running it as the Assembly polls inched closer.
Mr Shah, in reply to a query during BJYM’s Yuva Town Hall event here said, “First thing was that no state can give more than 50 per cent reservation and the second was that the provision for quota to SC and ST categories was in the Constitution itself.
But the thing a caste can be included in OBC category for such benefits and this was the demand of the Patidar quota stir but if it is to be done, they should first apply for this before the OBC Commission which after looking in to the matter. I have also suggested them several times to follow this path.”
He, however, without naming main opposition Congress said that the stir was motivated by a political party. It was not the first such stir in Gujarat in the past also many times such stir had taken place. Two or three times such agitations ended up as a political agitation.
” I feel that if you want reservation you should move forward in legal and constitutional way. But as the Assembly poll inches closer the stir would openly become political party centered,” he said.
Mr Shah said there were many who were attached with it through feelings but the political inclinations and trends of those handling the stir would slowly become clear.
Replying to another query regarding Una Dalit flogging incident, Mr Shah said that as per the official figures of the home department Gujarat was the state with least number of cases of Dalit atrocity. “
The State Government would take strict measures to ensure that the incidents that spread hatred in the society was never repeated,” Mr Shah added. (AGENCIES)
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