BJP slams Congress, Left for reservation to Muslims

Welcoming Andhra Pradesh High Court order quashing 5 per cent reservation for Muslims in jobs, BJP today said Congress had tried to fool the minority community for vote-bank politics.

New Delhi: Welcoming Andhra Pradesh High Court
order quashing 5 per cent reservation for Muslims in jobs, BJP
today said Congress had tried to fool the minority community
for vote-bank politics.

The main opposition party also condemned the West Bengal
government for toeing the Congress line on the issue.
"BJP welcomes the High Court decision. The act of the
Andhra Pradesh government was against the Constitution and
politically motivated. The Congress government in the state
has breached the sanctity of the Constitution," party
spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said.

He asserted that Congress had tried to fool the Muslims by
giving them reservation on religious lines. "We hope Muslims
will also understand how Congress tries to fool them."

Arguing that his party stood for reservation on the basis
of social and economic backwardness, the Rajya Sabha MP
maintained that the erstwhile BJP government in Rajasthan had used economic backwardness as a criteria to give reservation to the people.

Javadekar said now even the West Bengal government was
toeing the Congress line by giving reservations to Muslims.

Insisting that such policies of the Communists were
responsible for their current dismal state, he said, "They are
also toeing the Congress line on reservation for Muslims. We
condemn both parties."

The West Bengal government today announced 10 per cent
quota in jobs for socially, educationally and economically
backward Muslims under OBC category.

-PTI

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