Following Supreme Court upholding the 2018 amendments to the SC/ST Act, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday (February 10) said that the BJP and RSS’s ideology is against reservations and that they want to do away with it. Speaking to reports, the Wayanad MP also claimed that BJP and RSS do not SC/STs category to progress.
“They’re breaking the institutional structure. I want to tell SCs/STs/OBCs and Dalits that we’ll never let reservations come to an end no matter how much Modi Ji or Mohan Bhagwat dream of it,” Rahul was quoted as saying by ANI.
Earlier in the day, Supreme Court, while hearing pleas challenging the Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes (SCs/ STs) (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act, 2018, ruled out out any provision for anticipatory bail for a person accused of atrocities against SC/STs. The Act was enacted to nullify the effects of the March 20, 2018 judgment of the top court that had diluted the provisions of the Act.