“Modi is not an OBC by birth; he has not faced caste discrimination ever,” the Bahujan Samaj Party chief said at a news conference here. The BJP says that Gujarat’s Modh Ghanchi caste, to which Modi belongs, was included in the OBC list in 1994. But the Congress claims that the Modh Ghanchi — who were upper caste Vaishyas —were put on the OBC list in 2002, when Modi was Gujarat chief minister. “Would the RSS have let Modi become Prime Minister if he were born an OBC? Addressing a rally in Mainpuri on April 19, Mayawati had dubbed Samajwadi patriarch and rival-turned-ally Mulayam Singh Yadav “the real OBC” and Modi a “fake OBC”.

Source: The Telegraph May 11, 2019 01:41 UTC