On Saturday Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh targeted the Congress party for making the Muslim quota an election issue by categorizing the community as a backward caste for reservation purposes in Karnataka in midst of the Lok Sabha poll season.
When asked why the BJP has raised such an issue, the Defence Minister said that it’s opposition who stroked controversy, and not the BJP. ‘Why can’t Congress think of all citizens as equal’?, he asked.
Rajnath Singh added, ‘The opposition had raised the entire issue of Muslim quota. When they raise such a matter, the Prime Minister is bound to reply in a public forum’.
Singh added that BJP doesn’t support the politics of caste, creed and religion. He said, ‘We have always played politics of insaaf and insaaniyat’.
Slamming the Congress for its Muslim first approach of politics, Singh added that the welfare schemes of the BJP government reached all citizens without discrimination.
The Congress-led Karnataka government found itself at the centre of a controversy after it announced inclusion of all castes and communities of Muslims in the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category.
The decision came when the nation is undergoing the Lok Sabha elections. The National Commission of Backward Classes (NCBC) said such blanket categorization undermines the principles of social justice.
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