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There will be no reservation for the Muslim community on the basis of religion, as such a quota would be unconstitutional, said the Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday, during a fiery 40-minute Lok Sabha debate. Shah’s response came after Samajwadi Party's Akhilesh Yadav and Dharmendra Yadav spoke in favour of giving a quota to Muslims on religion basis.

 

"The question of providing reservations to Muslim women on the basis of religion does not even arise. Our Constitution does not allow at all to give reservation on the basis of religion. I want to make it clear that our government's resolve is that Muslims will not be given reservations on the basis of religion. Such a reservation is unconstitutional," he said.

 

The home minister said the Samajwadi Party members were saying that they would place the demand for a caste census, but he would like to inform them that the government had already taken a decision to carry out the caste census, and it would be carried out along with the population enumeration.

 

"Right now, the counting of households is underway, and the households do not have any caste. If the Samajwadi Party had its way, it would determine the caste of households as well," he said.

 

Shah also said, "If the Samajwadi Party gives all its tickets to Muslim women, where do we have any objection? We have no objections at all".