{"id":41178,"date":"2018-04-10T16:06:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T10:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=41178"},"modified":"2018-04-10T16:07:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T10:37:33","slug":"quotas-should-stay-bjp-april-2-april-10-bharat-bandhs-different-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/special-tv-shows\/apn-mudda-show\/quotas-should-stay-bjp-april-2-april-10-bharat-bandhs-different-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotas should stay: BJP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mudda <em>panellists feel that parties should rise above vote politics to make a real difference in the lives of underprivileged, ruling party spokesperson clarifies stand on possible rollback of reservations<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Several groups\u00a0opposing caste-based reservations called for a Bharat bandh on Tuesday, following which\u00a0the\u00a0ministry of Home affairs (MHA) issued an advisory\u00a0to all states to beef up security.\u00a0Among many other developments related to the agitation, clashes were reported in Bihar and Section 144 was imposed in Bhopal.\u00a0Caste is increasingly being seen as a vote bank by politicians. Instead of uplifting the underprivileged, caste and quota issues are raised by politicians for vested interests. These and other issues were discussed at\u00a0<em>APN<\/em>\u2019s popular debate\u00a0<em>Mudda<\/em>. Anchorperson Anant Tyagi posed the questions to panelists including BJP\u2019s Ashok Goel, Congress\u2019s Surendra Rajput, SP\u2019s Manoj Yadav, RPI\u2019s Mahaveer Sonavane, Supreme Court advocate MC Dhingra, Dalit leader Lalji Nirmal, political expert CB Pandey, noted journalist Ravindra Singh, and\u00a0<em>APN<\/em>\u00a0consulting editor Govind Pant Raju.<\/p>\n<p>Singh said: \u201cDalits got angry because of the dilution of the SC\/ST Act. The violence is because of non-Dalits who are joining the protests. It\u2019s not in the DNA of Dalits to be violent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pandey said: \u201cThe Act has not been diluted so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Goel said: \u201cThe BJP wants the quotas to stay. The violence is being triggered by anti-socials, and they are taking the name of Ambedkar. Some opposition parties are behind the violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rajput said: \u201cThe April 2 stir and April 10 stir are very different. In the last four years, BJP\u2019s policies have been anti-Dalit. Dalits are angry. The Supreme Court dilution of the ACT was like putting oil to the fire. In UP, Mayawati had also diluted the Act, but Dalits trust Mayawati, and not Modi, therefore the protests now.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Goel said: \u201cBefore the BJP came to power, the political parties were just seeing Dalits as a vote-bank. BJP is actually changing this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Singh said: \u201cDalits have been exploited, and all parties are guilty of indulging in this. Quota should be given on basis of economic backwardness. Political parties have created divisions to suit their own interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sonavane said: \u201cQuota should be not at the cost of the weaker sections. Dalit quota should not be diluted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dhingra said:\u201dOn April 2, the stir was due to dilution of the SC\/ST Act. The stir on April 10 is against the quantum of quota. Both issues are different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yadav said: \u201cWitness the new India developed by Modi. SP does not support violence. Dalits are not the vote-bank for SP. Dalits are our subject and agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raju said: \u201cSince long, Dalits have been exploited as vote-bank. Quota is meant to remove social prejudices as well. If the political will was present, the actual scenario would have been very different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nirmal said: \u201cSC dilution has weakened the Act, and virtually put the Act on ventilator. Dalit anger will rise like this. Protests should be like those of <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/topic\/mahatma-gandhi\">Mahatma Gandhi<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rajput said: \u201cIt\u2019s the BJP who is triggering the violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Goel said: \u201cOrgainsing a bandh is a fundamental right, but we are against violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yadav said: \u201cBJP is responsible for ensuring peace and amity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raju said: \u201cDemocracy ensures voice for all. It\u2019s ok to protest. The government has to ensure that all sections of the society are well-addressed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Singh said: \u201cBandh is orgainsed by people who have vested interests. And we must watch out so that we don\u2019t become pawns in the political gameplans of various parties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><strong>\u2014Compiled by Niti Singh Bhandari<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mudda panellists feel that parties should rise above vote politics to make a real difference in the lives of underprivileged, ruling party spokesperson clarifies stand on possible rollback of reservations Several groups\u00a0opposing caste-based reservations called for a Bharat bandh on Tuesday, following which\u00a0the\u00a0ministry of Home affairs (MHA) issued an advisory\u00a0to all states to beef up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":41180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[15],"tags":[86,47,111,146,1685],"yst_prominent_words":[29227,6232,46291,46290,20827,4052,46293,46288,46287,46292,4095,4102,4315,4491,45634,20936,46294,4402,46289,4047],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2018\/04\/10160438\/Still0410_00000.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41178"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41178"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=41178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->