As Gujarat CM, Modi included his caste in backward category, says BSP supremo Mayawati

BSP supremo Mayawati has accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of including his caste in the list of backwards during the time when he was the chief minister of Gujarat. She further said the PM had done this for electoral profits and to kill the rights of the backward castes. Addressing a press conference on Saturday, Mayawati said, "In order to derive political profits during elections, he (Modi) got his upper caste included in the list of backward castes. Like (SP patriarch) Mulayam Singh Yadav and (SP chief) Akhilesh Yadav, Modi was not born in a backward caste." "Today, at Kannauj, he (Modi) said Behenji and Akhilesh think of him as a lowly (neech) person as he hails from a backward caste. Their (BJP's) Dalit-backward card is not working anymore," she added.