Cong quota flip-flop: Now questions EC

Our opinion is that we had announced the decision on the sub-quota well before the election dates were announced. According to us,there should not have been any ban on that decision, Congress spokesperson Rashid Alvi told reporters,expressing the partys frustration over the Election Commissions directive.

Alvi also went back on his remarks on Friday where he suggested Law Minister Salman Khurshids promise of higher sub-quota to minorities as an individual opinion,and said that the Congress was planning to promise an increase in this 4.5 per cent percentage in our manifesto for UP elections.

On the other hand,Congress general secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh Digvijaya Singh trained his guns on SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav to assert that Congresss promise for reservation to minorities was more practical than his proposal for reservation.

Mulayam Singh has promised 18 per cent reservation for minorities. This is not from within the OBC quota but separately through an amendment to the Constitution. SP can never implement it as it would never have numbers to amend the Constitution,so,his Mulayams promise is hollow8230; Congress promise is practical, Digvijaya said at the Congress headquarters.