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Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Tuesday described the Andhra Pradesh Government's decision to give five per cent job reservation to Muslims as "illegal and unconstitutional" and said it will "encourage conversions."
Addressing the BJP Parliamentary Party meeting here, he said the party fully supported reservation on the basis of economic, social and educational backwardness but was opposed to provision of such facilities on religious grounds, BJP Parliamentary Party spokesman V K Malhotra told reporters here.
"It is illegal and unconstitutional and we should oppose it in all fora, including Parliament", Malhotra quoted Vajpayee as saying.
BJP has announced a country-wide
fortnight-long 'anti-appeasement' campaign beginning July 26 in protest
against the Andhra Pradesh Government's decision.
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