PM Modi: ‘Congress will steal from OBCs, implement religion-based quota’

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the Congress will implement the reservation on the basis of religion by “stealing from the 27% quota of Other Backward Classes (OBC)”.

“Since Independence it was clear that reservation will never be given on the basis of religion in India. This is the basic spirit of the Constitution… But the Congress has started playing this game through the back door. It has decided to bring reservation on the basis of religion. For this they have devised a way to steal some of the 27% OBC quota,” said Modi, while asking the people to vote for the BJP’s Agra candidate S P Singh Baghel and Fatehpur Sikri candidate Raj Kumar Chahar.

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He alleged that the Congress has “insulted” late B R Ambedkar and the Constitution. “The Congress government in Karnataka declared all Muslim castes as OBCs overnight on a paper… The rights of the OBCs have been robbed. The Congress intends to play the same game in UP too. Wherever they get a chance in the country, they rob the rights of OBC, SC and ST and give it to them,” said the PM, adding that OBC castes Kurmi, Maurya, Kushwaha, Jat, Gurjar, Rajbhar, Teli and Pal should be cautious of their rights.