Telangana CM: Eliminating the 4% Muslim quota is not feasible for the Center

Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy said on Friday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah were unable to abandon the 4% reservation policy for certain Muslim groups, which is in place in Telangana.

He remembered Shah’s claims that the Muslim reservations will be eliminated by the Center.

Revanth was speaking to the crowd at the LB Stadium on Friday night at an iftar banquet hosted by the state government.

He said that the government of Congress was concerned with the well-being of Christian and Muslim minorities. He remembered that the 4% Muslim reservation had been instituted by the Congress administration headed by YS Rajasekhara Reddy. “It is our duty to safeguard the Muslim reservations that we instituted,” Revanth said.

The government, he said, has already made money available for minority schools and residential building projects, and it has been providing Muslim minorities with equal treatment in all spheres of life.

In the meanwhile, Md. Ali Shabbir, the state government’s advisor on minority matters, said that during Ramadan, Hyderabad’s stores and restaurants will stay open till four in the morning.