Kejriwal Accuses BJP Of Backtracking On Jat Reservation Promise Ahead Of Delhi Polls

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday alleged that the BJP has been “cheating” the Jat community of Delhi by not adding them to the Central government’s Other Backward Classes (OBC) list, “despite multiple promises”.

Hitting back, BJP’s New Delhi candidate Parvesh Sahib Singh said Mr. Kejriwal’s political foothold seems to be “slipping”, as he has “started dividing Delhi into caste lines” even though he “never remembered” the Jat community in the past 11 years.

Earlier in the day, addressing a press conference, Mr. Kejriwal said, “Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and the BJP have committed a big fraud. There is an OBC list of the Delhi government, and the Jat community is part of it. The Central government has an OBC list, but Delhi’s Jat community is not a part of it. So, when students go to take admission at any Central government university [for education] or bodies such as Delhi Police, DDA [for employment], Delhi’s Jat community does not get reservation”.