Mainpuri: BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Saturday alleged Union ministers Salman Khurshid and Beni Prasad Verma had dared the Election Commission over the minority sub-quota issue at the behest of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi.

"They have dared the Election Commission to do whatever it likes. It has all been at the instance of Sonia Gandhi who has not yet broken her silence on the matter," he told a poll rally here.

Both Khurshid and Verma were communal faces of the Congress, Gadkari said.

SP president Mulayam Singh Yadav had also promised to raise the Muslim quota, but "from where these leaders will extend reservation to the community," the BJP leader asked.

The Supreme Court had already fixed the quota limit to 50 per cent, he said adding these leaders should tell the people how they would fulfil their promises.

Alleging these parties were betraying the people, the BJP chief said for doing any such thing a constitutional amendment was required.

Targeting the UPA government at the Centre, he said it was neck-deep in corruption. "Some of its ministers are in jail and one is expected to go to jail soon."

PTI