CHANDIGARH: Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday that if the Congress comes to power in Haryana, it will snatch the reservation for other backward classes (OBCs) and give it to Muslims.He said the BJP will not allow Muslim reservation in Haryana where Assembly elections are scheduled to be held later this year. Addressing a ‘Backward Classes Samman Sammelan’ at Mahendragarh , Shah said, “In Karnataka, the Congress snatched reservation for backward classes and gave it to Muslims. The same will happen here (Haryana) if they come to power. I want to assure you that we will not allow Muslim reservation in Haryana.”Targeting former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda over the Congress’s ‘Haryana Maange Hisab’ campaign, he said, “ Hooda sahab, you have to give an account of 10 years of misgovernance and depriving Haryana of development.”“When the election gets closer Bhupinder Singh Hooda chants the term backward class. However, the Congress party has always been against the backward classes,” he said. Shah referred to the Kaka Kalekar Commission formed in the 1950s to provide reservation to OBCs and said the Congress did not implement its recommendations for years. “In 1980, (the then prime minister) Indira Gandhi put the Mandal Commission in cold storage. In 1990, when it was accepted, Rajiv Gandhi gave a two-and-a-half-hour speech and opposed OBC reservation.”’
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