'A fact': Sangh toppled Karpoori govt, says Cong; accuses RSS of 'abusing' ex-Bihar CM

NEW DELHI: As Prime Minister Narendra Modi started his Bihar canvass run by visiting the ancestral colony of socialist icon and erstwhile CM Karpoori Thakur, Congress connected Friday took a swipe astatine Modi asking is it not an acknowledged information that Jan Sangh - from which BJP emerged - brought down Thakur's govt successful April 1979 erstwhile helium introduced reservations for OBCs.Congress spokesperson Jairam Ramesh posted a bid of questions connected X to onslaught the PM earlier his sojourn to Karpurigram. "Is it not a information that Karpoori Thakur ji was subjected to the vilest maltreatment by RSS and Jan Sangh leaders then? Is it not a information that connected April 28, 2024, helium (Modi) himself called those demanding a caste census arsenic 'urban naxals' and that some successful Parliament (July 20, 2021) arsenic good arsenic successful Supreme Court (Sept 21, 2021) his govt categorically rejected a caste census?" helium asked.He besides asked that "is it not a information that helium and his 'trouble-engine sarkar' successful the authorities did thing to supply extortion to Bihar's 65% preservation instrumentality for scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, OBCs, and EBCs nether the Constitution?"