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Provide job quota to Muslims, demands
Samajwadi Party
Monday December 17, 2012 04:41:49 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Samajwadi Party Monday urged the central government to bring a
bill to provide reservation to Muslims in jobs, saying their
condition was worse then that of the Dalits.
On a day when the Rajya Sabha is to vote on a constitutional
amendment bill to provide reservation in promotions to the
Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, Samajwadi Party members
referring to the Sachar Committee report said Muslims were worse
off than Dalits and should be given reservation in jobs.
"The study of Sachar Committee and the report says the situation
of Muslims is worse than Dalits. When you are making an amendment
to the constitution to provide reservation in promotion, why can't
the constitution be amended to provide religion-based
reservation?" party's chief in the Rajya Sabha Ram Gopal Yadav
said raising the issue during zero hour.
His demand came shortly after the SP forced partial adjournment of
question hour over the issue.
"Bring a constitutional amendment bill and give Muslims
reservation in jobs. The minister should tell when the government
will bring such bill," he said.
Earlier, as soon as the upper house met for the day, Ram Gopal
Yadav called for implementation of the Sachar Committee report on
the condition of Indian Muslims.
Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari asked him to raise the issue
during zero hour and let the question hour run smoothly.
But SP's Naresh Aggarwal asked party members to gather near the
chairman's podium, following which the chair adjourned the house
for half an hour.
The Sachar panel report, about the conditions of Muslims in the
country, paints a dismal picture of Muslims' participation in
education and jobs. Among its recommendations, it called for a
mechanism to ensure equity and equality of opportunity and
eliminate discrimination.
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