Lalu Prasad Yadav’s ‘poora Muslim quota’ remark triggers row, PM Narendra Modi reacts.

PM Modi claimed the Congress and its allies want to snatch away reservation benefits extended by the Constitution to members of the SC, ST and OBC communities. RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s remark that Muslims must get ‘poora’ (complete) reservation triggered a political storm on Tuesday. Reacting to the remark, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the INDIA bloc leader, “who is out on bail in the fodder scam”, has revealed the Congress and its allies’ intention to transfer the Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes’ quota to the country’s largest minority community. “Congress is silent but today one of its allies confirmed the intentions of the INDI alliance. Their leader, who is in jail in connection with the fodder scam and has been punished by the court…He has just come out on bail…He said that Muslims should get reservation and not just reservation, he says that Muslims should get ‘complete’ reservation. What does this mean?,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at a rally in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar today. PM Modi claimed the Congress and its INDIA bloc allies want to snatch away reservation benefits extended by the Constitution to members of the SC, ST and OBC communities and give “complete reservation to Muslims”. PM Modi vowed that as long he was alive, he wouldn’t allow anyone to “erase India’s identity” in the name of what he called “pseudo-secularism”.“Congress and INDI alliance people should listen — as s long as Modi is alive, any attempt to erase the identity of India in the name of pseudo-secularism will not succeed,” he said.