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RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat calls for reviewing resevation policy

News Agencies | Updated on: 13 February 2017, 4:46 IST

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has said that the reservation policy has been continuously used as a political tool and called for reviewing the entire policy. He said that a autonomous committee shall be set up to evaluate who needs the facility and who doesn't.

He said though "interest groups" do get formed in democracy, aspirations of one section should not be met at the cost of others.

"Interest groups are formed because we have certain aspirations in democracy. At the same time, we should remember that through interest groups we should not strive to address those aspirations at the cost of others.

"We should have integral approach of welfare for all. It is sensible to realize that my interest lies in larger national interest. Government also has to be sensitive to these issues that there should not be any agitation for them," Bhagwat told Sangh mouthpiece 'Organiser' and 'Panchjanya' in an interview.

He pitched for constitution of a committee with representatives from the civil society to go into the issue.

"We believe, form a committee of people genuinely concerned for the interest of the whole nation and committed for social equality, including some representatives from the society, they should decide which categories require reservation and for how long.

"The non-political committee like autonomous commissions should be the implementation authority; political authorities should supervise them for honesty and integrity," he said.

Arguing that the policy of reservations based on social backwardness being extended now is not in line with what the makers of the Indian Constitution had in mind, Bhagwat said had quotas been implemented as per the vision of the Constitution makers questions on the issue would not have surfaced.

"If we would have implemented this policy as envisaged by the Constitution makers instead of doing politics over it, then present situation would not have arrived. Since inception it has been politicised," he said.

Bhagwat's remarks come in the wake of violent protests by the Patel community in Gujarat who are demanding a share in the OBC reservation pie.

-PTI

First published: 21 September 2015, 1:31 IST