Congress wants to give reservations to ‘special vote bank’ by reducing SC/ST quota: PM Narendra Modi
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Scroll.in— Modi claimed that the 4% quota for Muslims announced by the Congress in Andhra Pradesh in 2004 was a pilot project for a similar exercise nationwide.
The Guardian—Narendra Modi accused of stirring tensions as voting in India continues. Opposition says prime minister targeting Muslim minority with ‘hate speech’ and violating election rulesIndia’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has been accused of hate speech during a campaign rally where he called Muslims “infiltrators” who had “many children” and claimed they would take people’s hard-earned money.The opposition accused Modi of “blatantly targeting” India’s 200 million Muslim minority with comments made while addressing voters at a speech in Rajasthan on Sunday. Continue...
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Scroll.in—Will not allow reservations to be ‘distributed to Muslims as long as I am alive’, says PM Modi. The Muslim community has been entitled to reservations under the Other Backward Classes category in 14 states and Union territories.