Congress spreading political canard to mislead nation : Chugh

Chandigarh/Delhi, June 17, 2025: BJP National General Secretary Tarun Chugh today accused the Congress party of deliberately misleading the nation on the issue of caste-based census while maintaining a long legacy of betrayal against OBCs and marginalized communities.

Reacting to the Karnataka Congress government's backtracking on its own ₹165-crore caste survey report, Chugh said, “Congress has no intention of doing justice to the OBC community. The entire survey was just a political gimmick, and their retreat now exposes their hypocrisy.”

He said that for Congress, social justice has never been a commitment — only a slogan. “Be it Pandit Nehru rejecting the Kaka Kalelkar report, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi opposing the Mandal Commission, Rajiv Gandhi speaking against reservations in Parliament, or Rahul Gandhi speaking against reservation on foreign land. Every generation of the Congress leadership has stood against the rights of the deprived.”

Chugh said that it was Prime Minister Narendra Modi who gave constitutional sanctity to the OBC Commission — a historic decision that Congress governments never had the will to take. “While Congress Prime Ministers awarded Bharat Ratna to themselves, PM Modi gave the highest civilian honour to real torchbearers of social justice like Jan Nayak Karpoori Thakur, who truly uplifted the backward and marginalized,” Chugh added.

Chugh further slammed Congress for falsely accusing the Modi government of shelving the caste census, stating that Prime Minister Narendra Modi remains fully committed to implementing it in the upcoming national exercise.

“Congress is not serious about representation or justice. Their politics is guided by appeasement and deceit. Will the benefits of reservation be decided on data or on the whims of the Gandhi family?” Chugh asked.

He said the BJP not only implemented the Mandal Commission but also gave constitutional status to the National Commission for Backward Classes, showing its real commitment to uplifting the backward sections of society.

“For the BJP, caste census and OBC empowerment are issues of policy and principle, not propaganda. For Congress, they are tools of opportunism. The people of India will no longer be fooled,” Chugh concluded.