Rajasthan social justice minister Avinash Gehlot said on Saturday that the Congress granted reservation to 14 Muslim castes under the OBC category and the state government will review them soon.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that the reservation based on religion is unconstitutional adding that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is against any kind of Muslim reservation.
BJP national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawala on Sunday said it is unfortunate that the opposition parties Congress and Trinamool Congress (TMC) violated the Constitution to please their vote bank.
After PM Narendra Modi's 'Mujra' remark on the INDIA bloc, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday wrote a letter to PM, saying that he has said many baseless, factless and false things to the people.
"Congress is against Dalits, Constitution and BR Ambedkar. Congress has toppled 73 state governments. Dalits, tribal, backward and women are vote banks for Congress. They are lying that the constitution is under threat and that the reservation will be ended. The Congress party and INDI Al
Tripura BJP Chief Rajib Bhattacharjee on Saturday claimed that the BJP-led NDA alliance is headed for a one-sided victory in the 2024 Lok Sabha election.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched a scathing attack on the India bloc for appeasement politics, saying that they are performing "mujra to keep their vote bank" intact, adding that till Modi is alive, he won't allow the rights of ST, SC or OBC to be snatched away.
"But today, I give a guarantee to the country and Bihar that as long as Modi is alive, I will not let the rights of SC/ST/OBC and extremely backward classes be snatched away. For Modi, the Constitution is supreme, and the spirit of Baba Saheb Ambedkar is supreme," PM Modi said.
"Crores of Indians are associated with Bharat Sevasharam and the Ram Krishna Mission and they will give a befitting answer to Congress and the INDIA bloc partners like TMC," Adityanath said.
"In West Bengal, the way the government is running is totally illegal. Now the OBC certificate case has come into light. The West Bengal government is running illegally and it's the outcome of the same thing," Choudhury said.
Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Thursday said that his government will scrutinize the OBC reservations given to Muslim communities in earlier governments adding that reservation should not be given on the basis of religion.