Mumbai, May 29 -- Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi founder Prakash Ambedkar on Thursday publicly criticised the Congress party, branding it "Manuwadi" and equating its policies with those of the BJP in a post on X (formerly Twitter).
In his post, Ambedkar, the grandson of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, directly questioned senior Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, about the large number of unfilled Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) posts in Karnataka, a state governed by the Congress.
Ambedkar cited 1,032 vacant SC/ST government positions in Karnataka and highlighted that SC and ST representation in the state government roles stands at just 10.65 percent and 2.92 percent, respectively. He also pointed out that d...