The newlycarved “minority quota” within the 27% OBC category — Congress’s trump card in the UP elections — is set to increase from the current 4.5% after the ongoing caste census, Union coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal said. Jaiswal, who is in charge of the Congress campaign in Uttar Pradesh, told TOI that the ongoing caste headcount, clubbed with mapping of socio-economic conditions, was likely to bring more Muslims in the backward category.