By TwoCircles.net staff reporter,
New Delhi: A national seminar on the topic of ‘Constitutional Rights of Muslim Backward Society and Responsibilities of Government’ was organized by All India Muslim OBC Organization (AIMOO) at Constitution Club on July 10, 2008.
Speaking on the occasion, Union Minister for agriculture Sharad Pawar said social justice should not be viewed through the goggles of religion.
Pawar further affirmed his total support to the movement launched for implementation of the recommendations forwarded by Justice Ranganath Mishra Commission and Justice Sachar Committee.
The Nationalist Congress Party chief Pawar further said it is our constitutional responsibility to ensure the rights of the backward society, conferred on the basis of economic and social backwardness or profession, and which are enshrined in the Indian Constitution.
He said he will completely support the movement for social justice launched by AIMOO.
Editor of Hindi daily Hindustan Sarfaraz Arzoo said Ranganath Mishra Commission starts where Sachar Committee ends. He said Ranganath Mishra Commission report states that the wall of religion should be demolished in order to decide about the facilities for backwards and it also stresses on implementation of 15-point program.
The editor of ‘Secular Qayadat’ Qari Mohammad Mian Mazhari said we are not demanding our rights on the basis of castes but on the basis of profession and if the government of Maharashtra can implement it, then, why is it that other governments cannot?
Earlier, Mr. Shabbir Ansari, while inaugurating the program, said it is the collective responsibility of all the secular parties on whose support the UPA government has been running to check the way the present government is conniving to continue its policy to throw a historical and constitutional document like Sachar Committee recommendations in the dustbin.
AIMOO will release the details of its future strategy to press the government for implementation of Ranganath Mishra Commission’s recommendations in a press conference on July 12.