India elections 2024: Modi criticizes Congress over quota allocation to Muslims

DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (April 23) criticised the opposition Congress party for wishing to distribute the reservation benefits of the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes to the Muslims.

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Modi made these remarks during a public rally in western Rajasthan state, which goes to polls on April 26. Modi said the Congress party has resorted to the strategy of vote bank politics.

Critics accuse the nationalist Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of targeting India’s 200 million minority Muslims to please their hardline Hindu base – charges they deny.

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Meanwhile, on Tuesday a Delhi court extended the pre-trial detention of opposition party Aam Aadmi Party’s member and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal until May 7 in a corruption case.

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Kejriwal, the chief minister of the national capital territory of Delhi, was arrested last month in connection with graft allegations relating to the city’s liquor policy, weeks before general elections.