India, March 26 -- Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Tuesday dismissed the BJP's allegations that he advocated amending the Constitution to enable religion-based reservations. He firmly stated that he would retire from politics if the claims were proven true.

He accused the BJP of "spreading false claims" due to their inability to tolerate his political stance, according to news agency PTI.

Shivakumar also mentioned that the Congress high command had inquired about his comments and, after reviewing the video of his statement at a news channel's programme-where he defended his government's decision to introduce a 4 per cent reservation for Muslims in public contracts-was convinced he had not made such remarks.

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