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Mayawati escalates the reservation fight with RSS
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Mayawati will keep pressing the RSS on reservation, forcing the creamy-layer debate into a sharper constitutional and electoral confrontation.

This is a live ideological fight over the future of affirmative action, and it will reverberate well beyond one speech. It also keeps caste politics at the center of the national conversation.

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This is a live ideological fight over the future of affirmative action, and it will reverberate well beyond one speech. It also keeps caste politics at the center of the national conversation.

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Mayawati attacked the RSS over remarks on reservation and the creamy layer for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. She argued that reservation is tied to social justice, dignity and constitutional rights, and said caste discrimination cannot be reduced to income. Her comments sharpen the political clash after Mohan Bhagwat’s remarks that reservation had been politicised and beneficiaries should voluntarily give up benefits.

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Mayawati escalates the reservation fight with RSS

The BSP chief rejected the idea of a creamy layer for SCs and STs, calling the RSS position casteist and unconstitutional.

Indian Express·2h ago
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