Press Note Eng Dt:09/05/2014 Modi is indeed fake OBC
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Office of Shaktisinh Gohil
National Spokesperson, AICC
Press Note 09th May, 2014
Modi is indeed fake OBC
In its attempt to shield the lie of Narendra Modi, BJP is indulging in a series of lies. Asserting that BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi manipulated the status of his caste after becoming Gujarat Chief Minister, National spokesperson of Congress Shaktisinh Gohil said that the argument put forward by BJP government in Gujarat that Modh Ghanchi to which Modi belongs was included in the OBC list in 1994 was misleading.
Gohil pointed out that the OBC list was created and amended by central government only and Modh Ghanchi was not in the list, neither in 1994 nor 1999. In 1999 there was a move to oust Keshubhai Patel and at that time Modi had persuaded the then social welfare minister Bharat Barot to take up the issue of inclusion of Modh Ghanchi in OBC. Consequently, NDA government at the centre included Modh Ghanchi in the list. This was specifically for this reason that after becoming Chief Minister Modi got a circular issued on 1/1/2002 that Modh Ghanchi were among the OBC. Otherwise there was no reason for the 2002 circular. Until then only Ghanchis who were Muslims were in the OBC list. Gohil has challenged BJP to show the OBC list of central government to justify its claim of 1994. In addition to this Gohil pointed out that the website of Modh communities http://www.modh-samaj.com/modh-modi.htm clearly establishes that Modh Ghanchi was a trading community and thus Modi belonged to trading community.
http://www.modh-samaj.com/modh-modi.htm
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