"The Prime Minister is habitual when it comes to attempts at communal polarisation during elections......The BJP is staring at a big defeat," party's senior spokesman Anand Sharma told reporters.
Claiming that these are "desperate attempts" by the Prime Minister, he said that Modi "never believes in speaking truth and ....Is comfortable with lies".
"These leaders are making a devious plan. They are conspiring to take away 5 per cent reservation of dalits, mahadalits, backwards and extremely backwards and give it to a particular community.
"I come from an extremely backward class and understand the pain of having been born to a poor woman. I will not allow this to happen. I pledge to protect the rights of dalits, mahadalits and backwards even if it means sacrificing my life," Modi had told an election rally in Buxar earlier in the day.
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