With the Nationalist Congress Party NCP-held Minority Affairs Department announcing an ordinance for five per cent quota in education and jobs for Muslims, the opposition party BJP said that Sena seems to have struck a deal with alliance partners NCP and Congress to stay in power.

Minority Affairs Minister Nawab Malik told the upper house on Friday that the MVA would promulgate an ordinance which would be converted into law, possibly after the ongoing Budget session. He was responding to a question from Congress MLA Sharad Ranpise. He said Muslims will be given a quota in education first and then a separate law would be legislated for a quota in government and private jobs.