{"id":501290,"date":"2024-02-08T17:50:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T12:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=501290"},"modified":"2024-02-08T18:04:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T12:34:49","slug":"bjp-rahul-gandhi-modi-obc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/bjp-rahul-gandhi-modi-obc\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP dismisses Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s claims on PM Modi not being OBC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday dismissed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi\u2019s claims that Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not belong to the Other Backward Class (OBC) but the general category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Responding to Gandhi\u2019s claims, BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad asked him to stop making such shameful and baseless statements. In a scathing attack, Prasad asked has this become Rahul Gandhi\u2019s level. He said the poor people, Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Communities in this country considered Modi their leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing the public during his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Odisha&#8217;s Jharsuguda today, Gandhi said that PM Modi was not born in the OBC category but in the &#8220;Teli&#8221; caste in Gujarat. He said that the community was given the tag of OBC in the year 2000 by the BJP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Big Breaking: <br><br>Shri Rahul Gandhi&#39;s scathing attack on Narendra Modi. <br><br>He was born in General category, BJP put his caste into the OBC category, he said. <br><br>Watch! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vciXGNqnoz\">pic.twitter.com\/vciXGNqnoz<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sama Ram Mohan Reddy (@RamMohanINC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RamMohanINC\/status\/1755483272690188453?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gandhi said Modi was born in the General caste. Gandhi also said that PM Modi will not allow caste census to be conducted in his entire life because he was not born in OBC, he was born in General caste, the Congress leader claimed. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He continued attacking PM Modi asking people to tell the BJP workers that PM Modi lied to the entire country about his caste and that he belongs to the general category and not the OBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, PM Modi called himself \u201cSabse Bada OBC\u201d in Parliament. He attacked Congress saying the party which has no guarantee on its leaders, on its principles raises questions about the Modi government. The party during its rule did not decide between nationalisation and privatisation, it went on giving the Bharat Ratna to the family members and naming roads after family members, which pained PM Modi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PM Modi also brought up the caste reservation in his speech and said if Baba Saheb had not been there, they would have not got a reservation. He went on to say that Congress has been their biggest opponent of Dalits, Backwards and Tribal people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM Modi was not born in the OBC category but in the &#8220;Teli&#8221; caste in Gujarat. 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