BJP govt doing 'propaganda', failing to address critical issues: Akhilesh Yadav
Lucknow (PTI): Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday hit out against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, accusing it of prioritising "propaganda" over addressing critical issues.
Raising the problem of unemployment, he alleged that the government was failing to provide adequate job opportunities which was depriving the marginalised sections the benefit of reservations.
Addressing a press conference at party headquarters after a meeting of the SP's youth wing, Yadav said, "The Bharatiya Janata Party government is continuously working on propaganda. We also have to remember that our issues are still unemployment.
"The way jobs are decreasing, people are unable to find work according to their qualifications, the government is unable to provide respectable employment. People who have degrees, who have degrees in good professional courses, have been made delivery boys, so they are unable to provide respectable jobs," the former chief minister said.
Yadav alleged that the BJP government is undermining constitutional rights and tampering with reservation policies.
"While the people in the government, from time to time, do not give all the rights ensured in the Constitution, reservations are also being tampered with.
"Not giving jobs means not giving reservations. There has been a lot of political interference in education," he alleged.
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Brahmin community protests in Kalaburagi over removal of students' sacred thread at NEET exam centre
Kalaburagi (Karnataka), May 4 (PTI): Members of the Brahmin community staged a protest outside a NEET exam centre here, demanding accountability after some students of the community were asked to remove their "sacred thread" (Janivara) before entering the exam hall.
This incident comes close on the heels of a similar one during the Common Entrance Test held for engineering and other vocational courses on April 16, where the sacred threads of Brahmin boys were also removed.
Following the incident, the state government initiated action against the officials involved, including registration of a case. It also issued directions to prevent such occurrences in the future.
However, on Sunday, the Brahmin candidates were either asked to remove the sacred thread or had it cut before entering the exam hall.
Enraged over this, hundreds of community members gathered outside the NEET exam centre, raised slogans and staged a sit-in demonstration.
Protesters accused the government of "failing" to enforce its own instructions and repeatedly humiliating the community.
