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New Delhi:
Leaders of top Muslim organizations have condemned the Union Human
Resource Development Ministry for trying to enforce the provision of
27% OBC quota on Jamia Millia Islamia.
Spokesman of Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind
Maulana Abdul Hameed Nomani said, “Entrapping Muslims in trivia is
old game plan of government.” He was reacting over HRD ministry’s
warning to Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) to implement 27 percent OBC
quota else face withdrawal of government grant worth Rs. 70 crore.
Others have reacted even more sharply.
Ameer of
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Maulana Jalauddin Umri said, “JMI and Aligarh
Muslim University (AMU) are the institutions established by Muslims
and if Congress-led UPA government is meddling in their affairs, it
will be foolish.”
“On one side, the government talks of
schemes to remove Muslims’ backwardness but on the other it wants to
snatch away Muslims’ own institutions.” He pointed out that Muslims
need twenty more universities for eradication of their educational
backwardness but government is adamant to swallow down the handful
Muslim educational institutions.
Calling government’s demand to
implement 27 percent OBC quota a ‘fulsome excess’, the secretary of
All India Muslim Personal Law Board and Sajjadah Masheen of Khanqah
Rahmani in Munger, Maulana Mohammad Wali Rahmani said, “Even if
government accorded it the status of a general university and gives
financial assistance to it, JMI remain a minority institution.”
Mohammad Wali Rahmani argued,”Legal
suit on Jamia’s minority status is under hearing, therefore
constitutionally, HRD ministry has no right to issue any such order
that would result in abrogation of the minority character.” He
further said, “Article 30 of the Constitution stipulates that no
discrimination will be made in providing aid whether it is a general
or a minority institution.”
Imam of Fatehpuri Jame’ Masjid Maulana
Mufti Mohammad Mukarram and Delhi Minority Commission chairman Kamal
Farooqui also condemned HRD ministry’s untenable initiative. Founder
of Delhi’s Darul Qalam, Maulana Yaseen Akhtar Misbahi said, “This
clearly reveals that any grant to Muslims shall be given only after
humiliating them.” Expressing amazement over the directive, he said,
“Everyone knows that Muslims established JMI exclusively for
Muslims. Why did HRD minister not know this?”
Regretting HRD ministry’s initiative,
the convener of Minority Status Coordination Committee, Mohammad
Ilyas Malik said, “We are holding meeting and soon we will talk to
JMI vice-chancellor and then organize a conference of Milli leaders
and intellectuals to work out how to put pressure on the government
to resolve the tangle.”
President of Jamia Teachers
Association, Prof. Nusratullah Khan said, “Twenty-seven percent OBC
reservation does not apply to JMI as according to CEI—Reservation in
Admissions 2006 passed by the parliament does not apply to minority
institutions. Government does not have any right to withheld grant
because this is our fundamental right.”
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