Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the ancestral village of former Bihar chief minister and social justice leader Karpoori Thakur, the Congress on Friday posed three direct questions to him over his party’s past actions and current policies on caste and reservation.

Congress general secretary in-charge of communications Jairam Ramesh, in a post on X, said, “Today the Prime Minister is going to the ancestral village of Jannayak Karpoori Thakur ji. Here are our three straight questions to him.”

Ramesh asked whether it was not an “acknowledged fact” that the Jan Sangh, from which the BJP later emerged, had brought down Karpoori Thakur’s government in Bihar in April 1979 after he introduced reservations for Other Backward Classes. He said Thakur was subjected to the “vilest abu

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