Amit Shah hits out at Congress, dares party to clear stand on OBC Bill

Lucknow/Chandauli: Looking to woo Dalit voters, BJP chief Amit Shah on Sunday dared Congress president Rahul Gandhi to make public his party’s stand on the amended OBC Bill before it is taken up for passage in the Rajya Sabha. He said if the Congress does not help in the Bill’s passage in the House it would get exposed as a party disinterested in welfare of the backward communities.

The Constitution (123rd Amendment) Bill, 2017, commonly known as the OBC Bill, was passed in the Lok Sabha on August 2 and will now go to the Rajya Sabha for passage.

The proposed legislation seeks to grant the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) a constitutional status on a par with the National Commissions for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.

Mr Shah, who was in Chandauli to attend a function on renaming Mughalsarai junction in Uttar Pradesh after RSS stalwart Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, said, “The Modi government has got the OBC Bill passed in the Lok Sabha. This will go to the Rajya Sabha. Will Rahul Gandhi clarify before the country whether his party will help in the passage of the Bill in the Rajya Sabha or not.