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Bihar
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Delhi Conf to see birth of first Indian board on Islamic Investment
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Indian
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NGOs join
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CARE
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Madhya
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Will take all steps to implement Muslim quota: Rosaiah |
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Govt
rules out OBC quota in Women's Bill:
Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moily
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Masjid:
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Madhya
Pradesh assembly passes strong anti-terror law:
The Madhya Pradesh
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Basking on the glory of enjoying the second highest per capita
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notice issued to staff for not singing Gandhian prayer:
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 Muslim reservation in Andhra receives support from all parties:
All major political
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Cabinet
to handover NIMS University campus to Centre:
The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet today approved the proposal to handover
the Nizam Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) University campus
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Terming Hindutva as the "spirit" of BJP, party President Nitin
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mortem report blasts the police theory on Batla House encounter:
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Sacred
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Leader of opposition in Delhi Assembly
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Islam,
Christianity alien, so cannot get quota: BJP
Saturday, March 27, 2010 03:30:03 AM ,
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New Delhi:
"Islam and Christianity are alien" to India and, therefore, the
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) feels people from the minority groups,
even if their socio-economic condition is low, should not be given
the privilege of quota in jobs, legislative bodies and education, a
party official said Friday.
At a press conference here, BJP's newly-appointed spokesperson
Ramnath Kovind called for scrapping of the Ranganath Misra
commission report that recommends 15 percent quota in government
jobs for socially and economically backward sections among religious
and linguistic minorities in India.
The National Commission on Religious and Linguistic Minorities,
headed by Justice Ranganath Misra, former chief justice of India,
has in its report also recommended inclusion of Muslim and Christian
converts as Scheduled Castes and given a quota to that category.
"No, that is not possible," said Kovind. "Including Muslims and
Christians in the Scheduled Castes category will be
unconstitutional."
Asked how Sikh Dalits were enjoying the quota privilege in the same
category, Kovind said: "Islam and Christianity are alien to the
nation."
He said that "it is very well known" that convert Dalit Christians
and Muslims get better education in convent schools.
"The educational level of Scheduled Caste children remains much
lower than that of convert Dalits and Muslims. The children of
converts will grab major share of reservation in government jobs.
They would become eligible to contest elections on seats reserved
for Scheduled Castes. This would encourage conversion and fatally
destroy the fabric of Indian society," he said.
"The Misra commission report should be scrapped because (its
recommendations) will jeopardise the interests of Scheduled Castes,"
he said.
The Misra panel report, which was tabled in parliament Dec 18, 2009,
has defined religious and linguistic minorities as backward classes
and recommended 15 percent reservation for all minorities in jobs,
education and welfare schemes.
Of India's 1.2 billion population, Muslims form the largest minority
at close to 14 percent, followed by Christians at 2.3 percent, Sikhs
at 1.9 percent, Buddhists at 0.8 percent, Jains at 0.4 percent and
others including Parsis at 0.6 percent.
"Within the recommended 15 percent earmarked seats in institutions
shall be 10 percent for the Muslims and the remaining 5 percent for
the other minorities," the report had suggested.
The recommendations have triggered a row with Hindu parties severely
opposing it. The government itself is doubtful about the
implementation of the recommendations.
However, the Supreme Court in a ruling Thursday gave legitimacy to
minority reservation by allowing four percent quota in jobs for
backward Muslims in Andhra Pradesh. This could give a push to the
Congress to go ahead with implementing the Ranganath Misra report
recommendations.
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