4.5% quota should not have been banned: Rashid Alvi

Congress leader Rashid Alvi on Saturday said there should not have been ban on 4.5% quota as decision was taken prior to poll announcement.

The Election Commission Wednesday asked the government to put on hold its decision on 4.5% sub-quota for minorities in five poll-bound states till election process ends there as a controversy raged over the issue.

Law Minister Salman Khurshid went a step further when he announced in his wife Louise's constituency Farrukhabad that Congress, if voted to power in UP, would double the sub-quota to nine percent for OBC Muslims.