The Economic Times
NEW DELHI, JUNE 3: Anti-incumbency, low OBC population make polls a difficult proposition for party in Punjab & Uttaranchal
Ordinarily, the quota debate in the BJP and divergent perceptions in the saffron camp over the issue, should have been a cause of relief for the Congress.
But the arguments put forward by the anti-quota sections in the BJP are making the Congress quite uncomfortable. For, it points to the devastation that quota can wreak on the Congress in poll-bound Punjab and Uttaranchal, where the OBC population is marginal.
The recently-concluded BJP national executive saw leader Satpal Jain from Chandigarh raise vociferous objections to the quota proposal. ...
