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BJP never tampers with reservation, it's a lie spread by opposition : Modi to Dalits

| | Mar 21, 2016, at 05:53 pm
New Delhi, Mar 21 (IBNS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday reached out to the Dalits, trying to exhort them that the Bharaitya Janata Party has never sought to scrap reservation- "a lie"-the opposition is spreading.

Speaking at the launch of the  BR Ambedkar memorial in the national capital, Modi lashed out at the opposition  accusing it of spreading false rumours. Recalling that there was a similar attempt when former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee came to power, Modi  said, "We can never temper with the provisions of reservation…they spread false rumour that we want to end reservation. There is no truth in it."

"Nothing has ever happened to the reservation for Dalits, tribals, where we are in power but still this lie is spread to mislead people...We can never strengthen the nation by making the society weak," he said.

Pointing that he was the first Prime Minister to speak at Ambedkar memorial lecture, Modi said that "Babasaheb was the voice of the marginalised". "He is a vishwa manav. If Martin Luther King can be an inspiration, Babasaheb Ambedkar can also be an inspiration for the marginalised across the world," the Prime Minister said.

Speaking on  the contributions of Babasaheb to the women, Modi asserted that he fought for the rights of women when the Hindu Code Bills was being introduced.

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