BJP slams Congress, Left for reservation to Muslims

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New Delhi, Feb 8 (PTI) 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.

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