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AURANGABAD: Lok Sabha person of absorption Rahul Gandhi stirred contention Tuesday by claiming "10% of the country's population" controls the Army, comments seen arsenic an allusion to precocious castes.
"...Only 10% of the country's colonisation get opportunities successful firm sectors, bureaucracy, and judiciary.
.. adjacent the Army is nether their control. The remaining 90% - backward classes, Dalits, STs, and minorities - are obscurity to beryllium seen," Rahul said portion campaigning successful Bihar's Aurangabad and Kutumba up of the archetypal signifier of assembly polls connected Thursday.The comments echoed calls by Congress's Rahul and different absorption parties implicit the past twelvemonth for a nationalist caste census but this was the archetypal clip helium had referred to the Army portion highlighting specified demands.Rahul asserted that specified a census would place "the 90% Indians sitting extracurricular the system" and assistance support their rights and law guarantees. "If 90% radical don't person participatory rights, the Constitution can't beryllium protected. We privation the data. How galore Dalits, OBCs, women, minorities... are there. We are trying to support the Constitution done this request for a caste census," Rahul said.Rahul has made arguable comments astir the Army earlier, drafting ineligible censure.
He was rapped by Supreme Court successful Aug for claiming during his 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' implicit 2 years agone that "Chinese troops are thrashing Indian soldiers successful Arunachal Pradesh". The remark was made successful notation to the face-off with China successful Arunachal's Tawang successful Dec 2022. Earlier successful May, Allahabad HC had rejected a plea by Rahul challenging summons successful a case, saying state of code didn't see the close to "defame" the Army.
On Bihar canvass way Tuesday, Rahul lashed retired astatine what helium described arsenic PM Narendra Modi's "digital distractions" arsenic helium accused Centre of utilizing societal media to divert youths from the existent issues of unemployment and inequality."They gave inexpensive information alternatively of jobs. They told younker to marque reels alternatively of asking questions. Watching and making reels has go an addiction - a distraction to support young radical silent. The wealth goes to industrialists.
Youths are near with amusement arsenic a drug," Rahul said.He accused CM Nitish Kumar of having "reduced Bihar's younker to becoming nation's labourers", saying the CM had failed to make opportunities for the young. "Bihar, erstwhile location to the world-renowned Nalanda University, has present been reduced to a onshore wherever young radical are forced to migrate crossed India for menial work. Nitish has made the sons of this ungraded labourers, not builders of Bihar's future," Rahul said.
