BIDAR/RAICHUR: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday lauded the Karnataka authorities’s determination of scrapping the 4 per cent reservation for Muslims underneath 2B Other Backward Classes (OBCs) class, saying the quota on non secular traces was constitutionally invalid. Addressing public gatherings at Gorata village in Bidar district and Gabbur in Raichur district, he slammed the Congress for introducing the 4 per cent reservation for Muslims for “its vote bank politics”.
The Union Minister identified that Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai-led BJP authorities additionally tried to do away the injustice to the Scheduled Castes by introducing a brand new inner reservation.
The total 2B class was just for the Muslims and the BJP authorities scrapped it saying that it was not constitutionally tenable and divided the 4 per cent quota equally among the many two dominant communities of the state: Vokkaligas in 2C reservation class and Veerashaiva-Lingayats in 2D reservation class.
With this, 2B grew to become redundant whereas Vokkaligas’ reservation went up from 4 per cent to 6 per cent and Lingayats from 5 per cent to seven per cent.
“The BJP never believes in appeasement. So, it decided to change the reservation,” Shah mentioned strongly defending the choice.
“The BJP abolished the four per cent reservation given to the minorities and gave two per cent to the Vokkaligas and two per cent to the Lingayats,” Shah mentioned.
“The reservation for minorities is not Constitutionally valid. There is no provision in the Constitution to give reservation based on religion. This Congress government did it for its appeasement politics and gave reservation to the minorities,” he added.
