Will hike quota for SC, ST, OBCs: Rahul

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday addressed two public rallies in Jharkhand's Mahagama and Bermo where he raised the issue of reservation and tribal rights. Gandhi attacked the NDA government and PM Modi over reservation in Jharkhand. "In Jharkhand, BJP had reduced the reservation for backward classes from 27% to 14%. On one hand, Narendra Modi gives a speech saying that he belongs to the backward class. On the other hand, they reduce the reservation, snatch away your land and make you unemployed through demonetisation. That's why we have taken a decision in Jharkhand that ST reservation will be 28%, 12% reservation for SCs and 27% reservation for OBCs," he said during his address in Mahagama where he was campaigning for Congress candidate Dipika Pandey Singh.

In the later part of the day, Gandhi addressed his second meeting in Bermo for Congress candidate Kumar Jai Mangal. Gandhi also raised the issue of Dharavi in Mumbai during his speech and said that the NDA government is busy in land grabbing. "Dharavi's land worth Rs 1 lakh crore in Maharashtra is also being handed over to Adani. The truth is that our government in Maharashtra has been toppled only to grab land," he said.