Hyderabad: A day after the Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao met the Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking the Centre’s nod to a 12 per cent quota for backward Muslims, main opposition Congress party demanded to know the details of discussions between the two leaders.

Mohammad Ali Shabbir, leader of the opposition in Telangana’s legislative council, urged the chief minister to come out with the details of Prime Minister Modi’s response to his request on Muslim reservation quota.

“I want to know from the chief minister the basis of his assertion that 12 per cent quota for the backward Muslims was possible”, he said.

He said, in Prime Minister Modi’s own state Gujarat, the High Court had struck down the 10 per cent quota for the Patel community.

Shabbir was reacting to the reports from New Delhi about more than an hourlong meeting between KCR and the Prime Minister on Monday.

The reports quoting the sources said KCR urged the prime minister to accord an early approval to the Telangana state Reservation Act 2017 which increased the reservation for the backward Muslims from 4 to 12 per cent and for the Scheduled Tribes from 8 to 10 per cent. The bill was passed recently by a special session of the state legislature.

According to the report KCR also demanded that states should get the powers to decide the reservation quota for various sections keeping in view the social composition which vary from state to state.

The chief minister explained to the prime minister reasons behind the decision to increase the quota for the backward Muslims.

“This is not on the basis of religion but on the basis of economic and educational backwardness of a Muslims”, sources quoted KCR as telling the prime minister.

However nothing was known about the response of Prime Minister to his demand.

The meeting assumes significance in view of the fact that the BJP was vociferous in opposing the quota for the Muslims.

Telangana BJP leadership has already launched a movement against the legislation and was demanding the scrapping the quota for Muslims altogether.

Sources said the idea of simultaneous polls for Lok Sabha and all the state assemblies also came up during the discussion.

KCR supported the idea of the Prime Minister Modi and said Telangana was ready to accept it. But it was unlikely to make any major difference as the state had simultaneous polls in 2014 and will have the next polls in 2019 simultaneously.