BJP stabbing country with its casteist attitude: Rahul

Congress president Rahul Gandhi took to twitter to accuse the BJP of “stabbing” the country’s heart with its “casteist attitude” and attached a photo of job aspirants who had had their caste categories written on their chests in Madhya Pradesh.

The photograph, that has become viral on social media, shows two applicants for the post of police constables in the State police, with the alphabets ‘SC’ (scheduled castes) and ‘ST’ (scheduled tribes) written on their body.

The State government has ordered an inquiry to find out how and why such a system of marking was done during the medical examination of the candidates in Dhar district on Sunday.

Tweeting in Hindi, Mr. Gandhi said, “They have attacked the Constitution by writing SC/ST on the chest of the youths in Madhya Pradesh.”

“This is the BJP/RSS thought, that sometimes suspends a vessel from the neck of a Dalit or ties a broom on their bodies and stops them from entering a temple. We will defeat this thought,” he said.

Elections are scheduled in Madhya Pradesh later this year