Hyderabad, May 29 : The Telugu Desam Party today demanded the Centre to amend the Constitution of India for providing reservation to Muslims in educational institutions
and jobs.Reacting to the quashing by the AP High Court of the reservation sub-quota for Muslims, TDP president Chandrababu Naidu said the Centre should create exclusive quota for Muslims by bringing in a constitutional amendment.
“There should not be a quota within quota (of OBCs).The Congress, both in AP and at the Centre, has been cheating Muslims on the reservation issue. The 4.5 per cent reservation was provided in haste on the eve of the UP Assembly elections
to garner votes. The only way to ensure proper quota is through a constitutional amendment,” Chandrababu asserted.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court had on Monday quashed the 4.5 per cent reservation for Muslims from the 27 per cent OBC quota.
A division bench of the HC headed by Chief Justice Madan B Lokur observed that the sub-quota was based on religious lines and not on any other intelligible consideration.
“There was no rationale or empirical data to justify such an action,” the bench noted, indicting the Central government for handling the issue in a “casual manner”.
