Home minister Amit Shah accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of concocting a conspiracy theory around the caste census by bringing up the issue of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s caste, while asserting that the Citizenship Amendment Act would be notified before LS elections.
Shah said that minorities, particularly Muslims, were being misled on CAA that had no provision to take away anybody’s citizenship. He said Uniform Civil Code (UCC), recently enacted by Uttarakhand, would be adopted by other states/UTs based on the outcome of discussions by social and religious groups on its provisions as well as legal scrutiny.
While accusing Rahul of following the policy of telling lies publicly and repeatedly despite knowing that PM Modi’s caste, Ghanchi Modh, was categorised as an OBC caste, Shah said “it is unfortunate that the caste of a globally -respected leader like PM Modi is being raised. Rahul has no idea of the difference between a caste and bloc. Modi ji had only said that he is an OBC. Let me clarify that Modi’s caste was included in Gujarat’s OBC list on July 25, 1994, by then Congress govt led by Chhabildas Mehta. Later in 2000, based on Congress recommendation from 1994, it was also included in the Central OBC list as well.
Notably, Modi had not fought any election till then,” home minister said, while turning the heat back on Congress for not doing anything for OBCs by sitting on the Kalelkar and Mandal Commission report.