WATCH: PM Modi Attack Ex-PM Nehru Over Reservation For Backwards

NEW DELHI: In his Rajya Sabha address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted that the Congress party historically opposed quotas for marginalized groups.

He cited a letter written by former PM Jawaharlal Nehru to Chief Ministers in 1961, advocating for educational empowerment instead of job reservations based on caste.

“….I am reading out its translation – “I dislike any kind of reservation, more particularly in services. I am strongly against anything which leads to inefficiency and second rate standards..,” That is why I say that they are against it (reservation) by birth…Had the government recruited at that time and promoted them from time to time, they would have been here today” – PM Modi said.

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