Nitin Gadkari stated that even if there are reservations in jobs, it will not guarantee employment as the jobs are shrinking. He also said there is a ‘school of thought’ which wants the policymakers to even consider the poorest of the poor in every community.
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Nitin Gadkari said this following the agitation among the Marathas over reservation for their community in Maharashtra. “Let’s us assume the reservation is given. But there are no jobs. Because in banks, the jobs have shrunk because of IT. The government recruitment is frozen. Where are the jobs?” he asked.
“The problem with the quota is that backwardness is becoming a political interest. Everyone says I am backward. In Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, Brahmins are strong. They dominate politics. (And) They say they are backward,” the senior BJP leader said.
“So one school of thought is that a poor person is a poor person, he has no caste, creed or language. Whatever may be the religion — the Muslim, the Hindu or the Maratha (a caste), in all communities there is one section which has no clothes to wear, no food to eat. “One school of thought also is (that) we must also consider the poorest of the poor section in every community,” he said.
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Gadkari also appealed to people in Maharashtra to maintain peace and also appealed to the political parties as well to not add fuel to the fire.