New Delhi, March 20 -- Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Prahlad Joshi on Thursday slammed the Karnataka government over the proposed four per cent reservation for Muslims in public contracts and the resolution against Waqf Amendment Bill and accused the Congress of engaging in "appeasement politics."

"This is the politics of appeasement and even in the Supreme Court, under Article 15 Clause 1, it was said that you cannot give reservation on the basis of religion. And what is happening in Waqf in Karnataka. A farmer adjacent to my constituency committed suicide because land was grabbed in the name of Waqf Board and standing crops were bulldozed, there are many such incidents," Joshi told reporters.

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