New Delhi, Oct. 24 -- As Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits the village of Karpoori Thakur today, senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has posed three sharp questions to the government, targeting its record on social justice and caste-based policies.
In a post shared on X, Ramesh's pointed queries focus first on the historic 1978 decision by Karpoori Thakur to grant 26 percent reservation to backward classes, a milestone in India's social justice movement.
He asked: "Is it not true that your party's ideological predecessors-the Jan Sangh and RSS-openly opposed his reservation policy? Were derogatory and hate-filled slogans not raised against Karpoori Thakur Ji on the streets by the Jan Sangh-RSS during that time?Did the prominent leaders...