Tejashwi slams BJP over quota policy

PATNA: Leader of opposition in state assembly Tejashwi Prasad Yadav on Friday accused Bihar BJP president Dr Sanjay Jaiswal of trying to distort the state’s reservation policy for the scheduled caste (SC), scheduled tribe (ST) and other backward classes (OBCs).
He said the Nitish Kumar-led state government was doing “injustice” to the beneficiaries of the quota policy under the influence of the saffron party.
In a statement released on Friday, Tejashwi slammed Jaiswal over his critical observations made early this week after the announcement of the results of the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) examinations. Dr Jaiswal had even described Tejashwi as “ninth pass leader”.
Tejashwi had questioned the policy to keep some of the candidates of the reserved category within the quota, even as the marks fetched by them was higher than, or at par with, the general category candidates, implying that 50% seats meant for the general category should have also gone to the candidates of the reserved category with the cut off marks higher than the general category.
On Friday, Tejashwi said Jaiswal had a “dull-minded understanding of the reservation policy”. “The issue in hand was the ‘sanghi’ conspiracy to deliberately keep the meritorious students of the reserved category within their reserved quota. But Jaiswal read and interpreted it as some having problems with the reserved category students fetching good marks,” he said.