Playing with reservations for politics is dangerous

The Congress-led UPA ruling coalition intends to apply the quota formula to Muslims in a vote-garnering gambit. Numbering about 150 million, Muslims constitute the largest minority group, with the potential to swing poll results if they vote as a block. The Congress and its socialist and communist allies, in fact, nurtured the politics of minorityism by stridently supporting the community’s right to follow the Islamic Personal Law even if all others are governed by a modern civil code in social and personal matters. The Constitutional directive to enforce a uniform civil code has thus been shamelessly flouted.

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