The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday (July 25, 2025) accused the Congress party of not having done anything for the other backward classes (OBCs), adding that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government had taken several concrete measures for their welfare.
Dismissing as baseless the Congress party’s charge that the Modi government had not done anything for the OBCs, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan told the media that the government was headed by an OBC leader for the first time.
Mr. Pradhan accused the Congress of opposing reservations for the Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, and OBC communities for many years. He alleged that former Congress chief Sitamram Kesri, a leader from an OBC community, was humiliated by his own party colleagues.
Past Congress stances
“If anyone opposed Mandal Commission the most, it was Rahul Gandhi’s late father Shri Rajiv Gandhi. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the then Prime Minister, had written a letter to the Chief Ministers that reservation would be dangerous for the country’s development. When Pujya Baba Saheb Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar made the provision for reservation, Pandit Nehru had opposed it. Pandit Nehru’s daughter and former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi also opposed reservation,” he said.
