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Talks, “dirty tactics” can’t go together: BJP
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, May 22
Taking serious note of the disciplinary action being initiated by the government against protesting doctors, the BJP today said repressive measures and discussions cannot go hand in hand.

"On the one hand, the government is holding talks with the striking doctors and on the other it is taking repressive measures like serving notice to vacate their hostels, etc, which is condemnable," BJP Parliamentary Party spokesperson V K Malhotra told newspersons.

"If the government is interested in diffusing the situation through talks, then it should not use such dirty tactics," he said.

Meanwhile, BJP's ally Shiv Sena favoured reservation for the economically-backward but was against giving it to Muslims.

"My party right from the beginning is for giving preference in employment to economically-weaker people. Economically -backward people should get preference. This has been brought in the wake of compulsion due to social circumstances. We may support the reservation," senior party leader and former Lok Sabha speaker Manohar Joshi told newspersons here.

Mr Joshi said Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackery would elaborate the party's stand on the OBC quota issue later.