Azam garh, January 10: Joining the war of words on minority quota, Rahul Gandhi today accused BSP supremo Mayawati and Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav of keeping mum on the issue of reservation of Muslims during their reign as head of the state government.
“Mulayam has been the CM thrice and Mayawati four times. But not once they spoke about reservation(for Muslims) when they were chief ministers, not once did they mention reservation,” he said during election meetings.
On separate quota for Muslims, Rahul said that till it was announced, Mulayam had been silent on the issue but ever since a decision was taken by the UPA government he has been raising questions on it.
Rahul asked Mulayam to openly state how much reservation he would provide to Muslims but said the SP leader would not do so.
He charged Mulayam with betraying Muslims by befriending former BJP leader Kalyan Singh.
—Agencies