PM #NarendraModi’s Strong Comments On #Reservation And #Dalits

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today compared Dr BR Ambedkar to iconic civil rights leaders Martin Kuther King and Nelson Mandela and vowed a world-class memorial in Delhi in honour of the architect of the Indian Constitution.

Giving the sixth annual Ambedkar Memorial Lecture, the PM said that none of his predecessors had delivered the speech.

Two traditionally affluent communities – the Jats in Haryana and the Patels in Gujarat – are demanding, with violent protests, that the government allocate a quota of reserved government jobs and places to them. The challenge for the BJP, which governs both states, is how to clear new reservation policies without being shot down by the courts, which have reiterated that no more than 50 per cent of state jobs and college seats can be reserved.