Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accused the Congress of attempting to violate the Constitution by pushing for religion-based reservation when it was in power. Modi made these allegations at a rally in Rajasthan, where he also promised to defend the constitutional provisions for reservation for SCs/STs and OBCs. He claimed that the Congress had tried to decrease the quota for SCs/STs in Andhra Pradesh and introduce religion-based reservation for a favored community. Modi also brought up a 2011 move by the UPA government to attempt a “religion-based quota policy nationwide”.