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New Delhi:Union minister Anupriya Patel, who represents Uttar Pradeshs Mirzapur Lok Sabha seat, has demanded a separate ministry for OBC welfare, highlighting the need for the governments focused attention on OBCs and separate budget allocations and mechanisms for them...
I am demanding a separate ministry for OBC welfare, Anupriya Patel said during an interview with ThePrint, terming such moves necessary to strengthen democracy..
Over the past few months, Anupriya Patels statements and a letter to UP CM Yogi Adityanath on ensuring reserved posts get filled properly during recruitment exams became a talking point amid what seemed to be a sense of disquiet about the party losing non-Yadav OBC votes to the INDIA bloc during the Lok Sabha election...
Asked whether she was trying pressure tactics on the Yogi government, Patel said, For our voters, for the people for whom this party was formed, for whom we are standing, for their benefit, if there is any injustice, intentionally or unintentionally, as an ally, what is our responsibility?.
It is our pre-poll alliance So, if you think there is some turbulence in the NDA, it is not like that, she said.. Calling post-poll alliances the alliances of convenience, Patel said people expect the worst because they have seen more of those, but in a pre-poll alliance, the parties stay connected for a long time...
