Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah on Sunday said the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and reservations in jobs would remain in force till the saffron party-led government is in power. “In the coming days, the Congress will spread different types of lies to mislead people,” Shah said at a rally in Chhattisgarh’s Ambikapur, PTI reported. “Sometimes they will say the SC/ST Act is being abolished, on other occasions they will say the reservation [system] was being scrapped.” He added: “I want to clearly say that the SC/ST Act and reservation will remain in force till the BJP government is in power.”

Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah on Sunday said the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and reservations in jobs would remain in force till the saffron party-led government is in power. “In the coming days, the Congress will spread different types of lies to mislead people,” Shah said at a rally in Chhattisgarh’s Ambikapur, PTI reported. “Sometimes they will say the SC/ST Act is being abolished, on other occasions they will say the reservation [system] was being scrapped.” He added: “I want to clearly say that the SC/ST Act and reservation will remain in force till the BJP government is in power.”