Delhi Congress president Devender Yadav on Saturday said the BJP was trying to weaken the Constitution, and the Arvind Kejriwal Government was emulating the BJP by exploiting the Dalits and denying them their rights.

Making these assertions, he also said the AAP was usurping the rights of the Dalits  was evident from the manner in which Delhi Mayor Shelly Oberoi was clinging to her position to deny a Dalit a chance to become the Mayor, as her term had expired on March 31 and it was the turn of a Dalit to occupy the Mayor’s chair in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD).

Yadav said in the SC/ST/OBC Education, under the Mukhyamantri Pratibha Yojna, the AAP Government has reduced the expenditure amount  by almost half to Rs 1.56 crore for 3599 students in 2023-24  as compared to Rs 11.23 crore for 15491 students in 2022-23.

He said that under the Merit Scholarship for College/University students for SC/ST/OBC/Minorities, the Congress Government had given Rs 5.80 crore for 7163 students in 2013-14,  which has now been reduced to 1563 students by allocating a paltry sum of Rs 1.61 crore in 2023-24,  which was further reduced to 815 students (0.74 crore) upto December, 2023.

Yadav said the Kejriwal Government has also reduced funding for tuition fee reimbursement for Dalits, and for financial assistance to SC students for pursuing higher education abroad. He said that Dalits have been totally marginalized in the Kejriwal Government’s scheme of things, and no wonder, two Dalit Ministers quit the AAP party.