Political parties exploiting SC/ST reservation issue: AAP

December 16, 2012 20:27

Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party today criticised political parties for exploiting the issue of reservation in promotions in government jobs and putting their partisan interests above national interests.

"Instead of taking a principled stand on this question,the Congress has dithered and allowed itself to be blackmailed while the BJP has maintained a strategic silence. Parties like the BSP and the SP have merely acted as pressure groups on behalf of one caste group or another," AAP spokesperson Manish Sisodia said in a statement.

This is one more instance of how political establishment puts its partisan interests above national interests, he added.

AAP takes exception to the cynical manner in which the issue of reservation in promotions in government jobs is being exploited by various political parties to pit one section of society against another, Sisodia said.

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