PM Modi reacts to Calcutta HC verdict on OBC status: ‘TMC gave certificates to Muslim for…’

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday targeted the Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal over the Calcutta High Court judgment that cancelled all OBC certificates issued in the state after 2010.P)..

At a poll rally in Delhi's Dwarka, Modi claimed that the Trinamool Congress, which has been in power in the state since 2011, gave OBC certificates to Muslims for their vote bank..

This was done because the West Bengal government inexplicably gave OBC certificates to Muslims, only for the Muslim vote bank..

This vote bank politics, this politics of appeasement, is crossing every limit, Modi said at the rally..

Modi also accused the opposition of handing over government lands to the Waqf Board in return for votes...

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