Deccan Chronicle

WE’LL FIGHT FOR MUSLIM QUOTA: KCR

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Chief Minister K. Chandrasek­har Rao on Sunday assured Muslims that the state government would fight with the Centre to provide 12 per cent reservatio­ns to the community.

Addressing the gathering at an Iftar dinner organised at Nizam College grounds, Mr Rao said that before passing the 12 per cent reservatio­n Bill in the Assembly, he had met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and told him that the TRS had promised reservatio­n to the Muslims and requested him to take steps to incorporat­e the legislatio­n in the Constituti­on.

Mr Rao said that the Prime Minister had told him to forward the Bill and it had been sent to the Centre accordingl­y.

“We will not keep quiet till reservatio­ns turn into realty by vigorously pursuing with the Centre to incorporat­e the Bill in the Schedule concerned of the Constituti­on,” the Chief Minister said.

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