Rahul against quota in Maharashtra

A day after the Congress government in Maharashtra asked the manufacturing sector to reserve 80 per cent jobs for locals, AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi criticised the move, reports Kuldeep Mann.

A day after the Congress government in Maharashtra asked the manufacturing sector to reserve 80 per cent jobs for locals, AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi criticised the move.

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“For me every citizen … should get equal opportunities throughout the length and breadth of country,” he said on Tuesday.

His take on Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray’s anti-outsider campaign: “He is advocating regionalism, to which I’m strongly opposed.”

He said the 1984 anti-Sikh riots were “absolutely wrong”. His view is a departure from his father, late PM Rajiv Gandhi’s statement — “Jab koi bada vriksh girta hai, to thori bahut zamin to hilti hai (When a big tree falls, the ground is bound to shake)”— on the riots.