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New Delhi: Union location curate Amit Shah seized connected Samajwadi Party MP Dharmendra Yadav's request for quota for OBC and Muslim women to hammer location his party's avowed absorption to preservation based connected religion.He besides reiterated govt's basal that the caste of citizens volition beryllium mentioned during the ongoing census to cull SP main Akhilesh Yadav's assertion that Centre's determination to nexus women's quota to the 2011 Census is driven by its reluctance for the same. Opposing the instauration of the Constitution amendment bill, Dharmendra said successful Lok Sabha that his enactment volition ne'er enactment women's preservation till a abstracted proviso for quota for OBC and Muslim women is made successful the law.
"Dharmendra Yadav has made an unconstitutional demand. Our Constitution does not let preservation based connected religion astatine all. I volition reiterate govt's resoluteness that giving preservation to Muslims connected the ground of religion is unconstitutional," Shah said, amplifying his party's absorption to faith-based quotas connected the crushed that British acquiescence to the Muslim League's request for a abstracted electorate for Muslims had encouraged calls for the instauration of Pakistan.
When Akhilesh stepped successful to inquire if Muslim women are not portion of fractional of the country's population, Shah said helium has nary objection if SP gives each its tickets to Muslims.He said location listing is being done arsenic portion of Census 2027, and caste volition beryllium counted next. "Houses person nary castes. If SP has its way, past adjacent houses volition person castes."
