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Committed to quota: Congress

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NEW DELHI: The Congress on Monday said the party stood committed to providing reservation to the socially and educationally backward sections irrespective of religion and promised to open talks with its allies in the United Progressive Alliance.

"The Congress believes in affirmative action for all religious and linguistic minorities. The Congress has provided for reservation for Muslims in Kerala and Karnataka in government employment on the grounds that they are a socially and educationally backward class. The Congress is committed to adopting this policy for socially and educationally backward sections among Muslims and other religious minorities on a national scale," the party manifesto for the 2004 Lok Sabha elections said.

Reading out a paragraph from it, party spokesperson Chaturvedi said the Congress would have been at liberty to deal with the issue had the party come to power on its own strength.

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Committed to quota: Congress

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