‘His tutor should be changed’: BJP’s Ravi Shankar Prasad takes a dig at Rahul Gandhi over ‘merit’ remark | India News – The Times of India

Ravi Shankar Prasad and Rahul Gandhi (R)

NEW DELHI: BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad on Sunday focused Lok Sabha’s chief of opposition Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of “disregarding” the advantage system and questioning his {qualifications} for the function.
His remarks come within the wake of Gandhi’s assertion calling India’s advantage system a “flawed” idea throughout a dialogue with professor Sukhadeo Thorat, a member of Telangana’s caste survey panel.
At a press convention, Prasad took a swipe at the Congress chief, saying, “Rahul Gandhi has once more made a smart assertion. He has mentioned that there isn’t a such factor as a advantage system on this nation… My first query to Rahul Gandhi is, by what qualification has he grow to be the chief of the opposition?… The place the foundations of the advantage system have been disregarded, it has been in his appointment.”
Persevering with his criticism, Prasad added, “Rahul Gandhi doesn’t do his homework. His tutor should be modified who will give him the proper details about India.”
In his interview with Professor Thorat, Gandhi argued that India’s training and bureaucratic methods are biased in opposition to Dalits, OBCs, and tribals. “There’s a utterly flawed idea of advantage the place I confuse my social place with my functionality. For anyone to say that our training system or our bureaucratic entry methods are honest to Dalits, OBCs, and tribals – that is simply a full fallacy,” he mentioned.
“The total narrative is an higher caste narrative. This notion of advantage is, really, itself an unfair thought,” he added.
Sharing the interview on X, Congress MP linked the problem to historic struggles for equality, referencing Dr B R Ambedkar’s 1927 Mahad Satyagraha.
“The struggle for share that started 98 years in the past continues. On 20 March 1927, Babasaheb Ambedkar straight challenged caste discrimination by way of the Mahad Satyagraha. This was not simply a struggle for the precise to water, but in addition for equality and respect,” he wrote.