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Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday said that the Congress Party has been committing a “dacoity” on OBCs’ reservation rights to introduce reservation on religious basis for Muslims, against Constitutional provisions and despite rejection of their moves by courts.
Addressing a BJP election rally in Agra, he said the Constituent Assembly drafting the Constitution had rejected reservation on the basis of religion, but the Congress has a record of insulting the document and its chief architect Babasaheb Ambedkar.
The party has tried to push reservations on religious basis in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh and its manifestoes mention the proposal, he said. In Uttar Pradesh too, the Samajwadi Party-Congress INDI alliance, pursuing the politics of appeasement, wants to bring reservation on religion basis.
“Wherever it can do it, it will try to loot the claims of the SCs, STs and OBCs and give them to others,” he said.
Mr Modi said since the courts rejected the Congress moves to introduce reservations on religious basis, it is now trying to do so “by the back door.” The party wants to “steal” from the OBCs’ 27 per cent quota quietly to pursue its objective. The Prime Minister asked the crowds “will you accept this, will you tolerate this?”
The Karnataka Congress government, in one night, included all castes of Muslims within the OBC coverage and allowed them to benefit from the quota. “Is this not dacoity on OBCs’ claims,” he said. Charmed by the policy of appeasement, the Samajwadi Party and the Congress think alike.
“The two boys (Akhilesh Yadav and Rahul Gandhi) in Uttar Pradesh talk of OBCs, but really want to transfer their share to their favourite vote bank. Will you allow them to do this dishonesty,” he said.