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Rajnath against religion-based reservation

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"It should not be at the expense of reservation for backward classes"

NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh said here on Monday that his party would strongly oppose any attempt to bring in religion-based reservation for Muslims and Christians as a follow-up of the Veerappa Moily Committee recommendations.

At the same time, the BJP made it clear that it did not and would not oppose Muslims or Christians benefiting from reservation for backward classes under which many Muslim groups are included.

Mr. Singh wondered why the Government was not clarifying how it wanted to go about with reservation for Muslims when this would be unconstitutional.

Also, with the maximum limit for reservation fixed at 50 per cent by the Supreme Court, a limit that has already been reached, how would the Government give additional reservation to Muslims?

Mr. Singh said this could be done only by reducing the quotas for Scheduled Castes and Tribes or the backward classes.

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