BJP will end reservation for Muslims in Telangana, says Amit Shah
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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will end reservation for Muslims introduced by the Congress and the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) in Telangana and provide the benefit to Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs), if it wins the Lok Sabha elections in the southern state, Union home minister Amit Shah said on Wednesday. "The BJP has decided that they will end reservation for Muslims done by Congress and BRS in Telangana and make reservations for SCs, STs and OBCs," he said at an election rally in the state's Siddipet Lok Sabha constituency. Follow full coverage of the Lok Sabha elections here. Unlock exclusive access to the latest news on India's general elections, only on the HT App. Download Now! Download Now! Shah's remarks came a month after Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy said that the ruling Congress in the state would protect the 4% reservation for Muslims in education and employment. On March 15, Reddy said: "Neither Shah nor Prime Minister Narendra Modi can scrap the 4% Muslim quota started by the then Congress CM, the late YS Rajasekhara Reddy, in the undivided state." The former BRS government in the state had also refused to do away with the reservation amid criticisms from the BJP. "The 4% Muslim reservation is not on the basis of religion. That is on the basis of socio-economic status," then state minister KT Rama Rao said in November. Also Read | Muslim quota part of agenda to push country towards Islamisation: Adityanath During his address to the crowd, Shah also alleged that the Congress had made Telanagana the state''s 'Delhi ATM' within a short span of coming to power. "In such a short time, the Congress party has made Telangana 'Delhi's ATM'. The Congress party is not investigating the corruption of BRS, whether it is Kaleshwaram (project) or land scam. BRS and Congress party, both are in cahoots. You make (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi ji PM for third term, Narendra Modi ji will liberate Telangana from this corruption," he added. The Congress assumed power in the southern state in December after it won the assembly elections. Shah urged the gathering to ensure the BJP is victorious in 12 out of 17 Lok Sabha seats in Telangana. Also Read | Quota for Muslims in Telangana and Andhra back in focus "If you vote for Raghunandan Rao in Medak, it would make Modi the Prime Minister again," he asserted. Meanwhile,Telangana Congress president and chief minister A Revanth Reddy accused the BJP leadership of trying to win the elections by indulging in negative campaign against the Congress. "The BJP leaders are spewing venom at the Congress by distorting the facts, with the sole objective of winning the Lok Sabha elections," he said. Reddy, who released a chargesheet against 10-year rule of the Narendra Modi government, said the BJP was talking of winning 400 seats only to implement the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh agenda. "The only way it is trying to achieve its goal is to run down the Congress party by launching a malicious propaganda," he said.