New Delhi [India]: Hitting back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's reservation-related jibe at the Congress, party general secretary Jairam Ramesh on Sunday accused the Prime Minister of giving a "communal colour" to reservation and propagating white lies. Speaking to ANI, Congress President Jairam Ramesh said, "The Prime Minister is trying to give a communal color to the OBC reservation given in 1994. The reality is that in 1994, reservation was given to all backward communities of all religions in Karnataka. " Be it Christian or Jain, we did not make religion the basis for giving reservation, we gave reservation for economic and social backwardness. Ramesh expressed concern over the timing of PM Modi's comments and raised the question that the debate on reservation has been going on for thirty years. Why has it arisen again after, especially during the reign of BJP led governments at the state and national level."After 1994, there have been four BJP Chief Ministers. Karnataka... Narendra Modi was the Prime Minister for 10 years. Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the Prime Minister for 6 years and this issue has been raised after 30 years," the veteran Congress leader said in response to PM Modi's Also mentioned in the interview, he told ANI, "Some Muslim castes have also been included in the OBC list and the Prime Minister himself is taking credit for it and then he is accusing Congress of giving reservation on the basis of religion." Accused of spreading irrelevant rhetoric and misinformation to influence public opinion amid the ongoing elections, the minister said, "Since April 19, the Prime Minister has only one issue to focus on. Because he knows that 'clean in South India, half in North India', and hence he keeps mentioning Mangalsutra, Hindu Muslim, reservation for Muslims, he is all talking irrelevant things and spreading lies.The answer to lies will be found only through votes.'' Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while addressing a public rally in Tonk, Rajasthan on April 23, had said that Baba Saheb Ambedkar had given the right of reservation to Dalits and backward classes. class, and tribal, but the faction of Congress and India wanted to give it to Muslims on the basis of religion "The Congress Party has played with the Constitution of this country. When the Constitution was drafted, reservation on the basis of religion In his speech, former PM Dr. Manmohan Singh said that Muslims have the first right on the resources of the country. The thinking has always been of appeasement and vote bank politics.