January 21, 2025 08:07 am (IST)
Reservation policy to continue: Jaitley
New Delhi, Mar 14 (IBNS) A after the Rashriya Swyam Sevak Sangh (RSS) called upon the affluent to give up reservation facility in jobs and education, the Government said there is no rethink over the present policy and it will continue, reports said.
"It is the stated policy of government that present arrangement of reservation will be maintained," leader of the house in the Rajya Sabha and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said after SP and BSP members raised concern over remarks by some RSS leaders on Sunday.
Jaitley said RSS "has also not talked" of scrapping or changing the present reservation policy.
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