'Prasada's view on reservation policy input for consideration'

Congress today said that Jitin Prasada view that the party should junk Mandal politics dominated by a handful of OBCs and espouse a "daring" revision was "input for consideration" at the Mathura Chintan Shivir scheduled on September 21.
"This is a view of a particular Member and everybody is entitled to very careful listening, filtering and analysis"
"It does not mean it is a decision, it does not mean that we have pressed a button and changed the existing policy but equally inputs for consideration are always welcome and at the moment nothing more needs to be said", party spokesman Abhishek Singhvi told reporters.

Reports had it that former Union Minister Jitin Prasada in a letter to party general secretary Madhusudan Mistry called for giving primacy to "most backward castes" and "poor upper castes" in job reservations.
Prasada said Congress should spearhead the demand for a "relook at the backward reservation policy" for "imaginative and politically daring inclusion and exclusion of groups from the benefits of reservation".
Congress has called a chintan shivir at Mathura to generate ideas for revival of organisation in Uttar Pradesh. Congress is in political wilderness in the key state since 1989 in the wake of the Mandal and Mandir surge.