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GANDHINAGAR/SURAT: Leaders of Gujarat’s Modi community dismissed Congress MP Rahul Gandhi‘s claim Thursday that PM Narendra Modi wasn’t born an OBC and that his community was added to the list in 2000. They said official documents reveal Ghanchi community was included in the OBC list in 1994.
“These claims (made by Rahul) are baseless and political. PM Modi is from Modh Vanik community. His family has been part of our community for generations,” said Shrivansh Gheewala, president of Shree Surati Modh Vanik Samast Panch.
Modh Vanik people, known as Ghanchi in parts of Gujarat, number around 20 lakh.
RS MP Narhari Amin, who was deputy CM of Gujarat when Modh-Ghanchi was notified as OBC on July 25, 1994, sought to set the record straight with a post on X.
“This is the same caste our respected PM belongs to. Rahul is insulting the OBC communities by cooking up mindless lies on this issue. This decision, and the subsequent GoI notification, came when Narendra Modi was not even MP/MLA, forget being CM,” he wrote.
BJP MLA from Surat Purnesh Modi said in Gandhinagar that Rahul was misleading people over Modi’s caste and that the Teli (Ghanchi) community was granted OBC status during a Congress government in the state.
He added that Rahul has been “spreading lies and has resorted to politics of appeasement.”
“When the entire country stands united under the leadership of PM Modi, Rahul Gandhi has once again started spreading lies and resorted to vote bank politics and appeasement. Against such politics, PM Modi has given the mantra of uplifting ‘Garib’, ‘Yuva’, ‘Mahila’ and ‘Kisan’ (the poor, youth, women and farmers),” the BJP MLA said.
Retired state additional secretary K G Vanzara, now a practising lawyer of Gujarat HC and SC, also dismissed Rahul’s allegation as false.
“These claims (made by Rahul) are baseless and political. PM Modi is from Modh Vanik community. His family has been part of our community for generations,” said Shrivansh Gheewala, president of Shree Surati Modh Vanik Samast Panch.
Modh Vanik people, known as Ghanchi in parts of Gujarat, number around 20 lakh.
RS MP Narhari Amin, who was deputy CM of Gujarat when Modh-Ghanchi was notified as OBC on July 25, 1994, sought to set the record straight with a post on X.
“This is the same caste our respected PM belongs to. Rahul is insulting the OBC communities by cooking up mindless lies on this issue. This decision, and the subsequent GoI notification, came when Narendra Modi was not even MP/MLA, forget being CM,” he wrote.
BJP MLA from Surat Purnesh Modi said in Gandhinagar that Rahul was misleading people over Modi’s caste and that the Teli (Ghanchi) community was granted OBC status during a Congress government in the state.
He added that Rahul has been “spreading lies and has resorted to politics of appeasement.”
“When the entire country stands united under the leadership of PM Modi, Rahul Gandhi has once again started spreading lies and resorted to vote bank politics and appeasement. Against such politics, PM Modi has given the mantra of uplifting ‘Garib’, ‘Yuva’, ‘Mahila’ and ‘Kisan’ (the poor, youth, women and farmers),” the BJP MLA said.
Retired state additional secretary K G Vanzara, now a practising lawyer of Gujarat HC and SC, also dismissed Rahul’s allegation as false.
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