Lucknow: Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday extended his support to ‘Bharat Bandh’ on Wednesday called against the Supreme Court ruling that permits sub-classification within reservation categories for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. He said the mass movement to protect reservations is a positive effort and it will instil new consciousness among the exploited and deprived. “The mass movement to protect reservations is a positive effort.
It will instil new consciousness among the exploited and deprived and will prove to be a shield of people’s power against any kind of tampering with reservation. Peaceful movement is a democratic right,” the SP chief said in a post on X. Yadav said that the public will have to take to the streets if the government tamper with the Constitution and the rights of people through scams and scandals.
“Baba Saheb Bhimrao Ambedkar had already warned that the Constitution will only work if the intentions of those implementing it are correct. When the governments in power will tamper with the Constitution and the rights given by it through fraud, scams and scandals, then the public will have to take to the streets. Public movements put a check on unbridled government,” he said.
Meanwhile, the ‘Reservation Bachao Sangharsh Samiti’ are observing a day-long Bharat Bandh today to protest the Supreme Court’s recent judgment on reservations. Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati also extended her support to the ‘Bhar.