Will scrap Telangana’s ‘unconstitutional’ Muslim quota: Union home minister Amit Shah

HYDERABAD: Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday vowed a Karnataka re-run in Telangana by scrapping reservation for Muslims if BJP came to office in polls later this year, terming such quotas in the BRS-governed state “unconstitutional”.
“We will put an end to Muslim reservations in educational institutions. Quotas are the constitutional right of Dalits, tribals and backward castes and we will ensure they benefit,” Shah told a rally amid the K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR)-led government’s moves to augment Muslim quotas from 4% to 12%.
BJP-governed Karnataka last month decided to do away with the 4% OBC quota for Muslims and distributed it equally between two dominant communities, Veerashaiva-Lingayats and Vokkaligas. The move came ahead of the May 10 elections.

Hearing petitions against the scrapping over a week ago, the Supreme Court called the decision “prima facie shaky and flawed”.
Addressing the rally at Chevella, 46km off Hyderabad, Shah also ridiculed BRS’s expansion plans, saying the PM’s post was not vacant and Narendra Modi will “easily” retain power in 2024.

Shah warned chief minister KCR that BJP won’t stop till BRS is dethroned and his “pink party’s metamorphosis from TRS to BRS was a mere tactic to divert attention from neck-deep corruption”.

“KCR dreams of becoming PM and touring India, but let him first look into his own turf, where rot runs deep,” Shah said. The remark follows KCR’s serial rallies in Maharashtra as part of his plan to expand his national footprint. The CM’s daughter, K Kavitha, was last month quizzed by the ED in Delhi’s liquor policy case. Shah appealed to the people to give BJP a full majority in the general elections next year. “There’s a trailer coming soon: Please vote BJP to power in the assembly elections in Telangana,” he said.