HYDERABAD: While welcoming provision of reservations to Muslims, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) has urged the Central government to create a separate quota for the purpose. "In the name of providing reservations to Muslims, the Centre should not cut the quota to OBCs," TDP leaders Yanamala Ramakrishnudu and Dadi Veerabhadra Rao said, in a press release issued on Saturday. They suggested that the OBC reservations be increased to 52 per cent. The Congressled UPA government provided only 4.5 per cent quota to Muslims, ignoring the reports of Sachar Committee and Ranganath Mishra committee, which recommended 10 per cent separate quota for Muslims. The OBC quota has come down from 27 per cent to 22.5 per cent after the provision of 4.5 per cent reservations to Muslims. The BC associations and political parties are demanding an increase in reservation to 52 per cent from 27 per cent in proportion to their population, they said. The TDP leaders accused the Congress of giving a stepmotherly treatment to BCs. The Centre should amend the Constitution so that it could provide separate 10 per cent quota to Muslims, they said.
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