Scrapping Muslim quota mean politics: Telangana minister KT Rama Rao

HYDERABAD: Minister KT Rama Rao hit back strongly at union home minister Amit Shah for announcing that BJP, if voted to power in the state, will scrap the ongoing 4% reservations to Muslims in education and employment sectors.
“There could be no more mean politics than this. This clearly exposes the double standards of the BJP. There is Muslim quota in Karnataka, Bihar, Kerala,” he said. The minister sought to ask BJP leaders, including Shah, why should Muslim reservations not be continued in Telangana when minority quota exists in even BJP-ruled states. Even in Gujarat, the home-state of PM Narendra Modi, the chief minister has announced that the state will implement 10% quota for upper caste and minority poor,” KTR said.
Stating that reservations are extended based on socio-economic backwardness, KTR said, “What sin have our Muslim brethren from Telangana done to be denied of their deserving reservations.”
He sought to remind everyone that even Sachar Committee in its report recommended Dalits and Muslims need reservations. KTR hit out at BJP leaders for targeting KCR-led government for allowing Group-I exams in Urdu. KTR said, “Modi has also launched a website for the promotion of Urdu language, but BJP leaders here try to project Urdu as a language of one community.”