“Nehru is always for Muslims,” the minister said quoting Ambedkar. Citing a document, Rijiju said while Ambedkar wanted reservation indefinitely till equality was achieved, Nehru advocated for it to be in place for 10 years.Rijiju cited Ambedkar as saying that while Nehru delivered more than 2,000 speeches in 20 years, he never spoke about the welfare of Scheduled Castes even once. “In 1961, Nehru wrote to all CMs that if we promote reservation, the talented will suffer,” he said. Though the Mandal Commission report came out in 1980, it did not see the light of the day for 10 years, he said, adding that it was the VP Singh government supported by the BJP that implemented it.
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