India, March 15 -- BJP MP Tejasvi Surya has strongly criticized the Congress-led Karnataka government for approving a 4 per cent reservation for Muslim contractors in government tenders, calling it "an attack on the Constitution" and a move that "incentivizes religious conversion."

Reacting to the decision, Surya said that reservations in India have always been based on social and economic backwardness rather than religion. "This new gimmick for electoral gains is equal to undoing the very purpose of reservation," he remarked.

He further accused the Congress government of misusing power and public resources for vote bank politics, arguing that such policies would turn the economy into a "playground for political opportunism."

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