Hyderabad, April 25 -- Mohammed Ali Shabbir, Advisor to the Congress government, strongly criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday for making false accusations against the previous Congress government regarding reservation policies in undivided Andhra Pradesh.

Former minister Shabbir Ali, accused Modi of either being ignorant or deliberately spreading falsehoods about the reservation system.

He highlighted that the Congress government, led by YS Rajasekhara Reddy, had indeed implemented 4% reservations for socially and economically backward Muslim groups in Andhra Pradesh back in 2004.

Shabbir Ali expressed dismay at the Prime Minister's attempt to mislead the majority community.

He clarified that when the Congress came to...