In June 2004, the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh asked the Commissionerate of Minorities Welfare to look into “socio-economic and educational conditions of Muslim community in the state” to include them as OBCs.
14 Muslim groups identified as backward were given 4% quota in united Andhra in 2004; UPA govt's 4.5% sub-quota within OBC pool was quashed by court in 2012, but Cong's 2014 manifesto talked of a similar move
Mohammed Ali Shabbir, the head of arguably India's first Minorities Welfare Ministry under a Cong government in Andhra, puts together the party's 'Minorities Declaration', hopes to counter BRS govt's scheme for backward classes and religious minorities.