By TCN News,
Hyderabad: While expressing deep concerns over the judgment of Andhra Pradesh High Court against the reservation to Muslims, Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee has condemned the remarks of Chief Justice of High Court that reservation to Muslims will promote conversions. The group said the remarks reflect a communal mindset.
“Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee deeply expresses its concern over the judgment of Andhra High Court against the reservation to Muslim and strongly condemns the remarks made by Chief Justice of High Court, that if reservation is provided to Muslims, conversions will take place. These kinds of statements are issued only by BJP and RSS ideologues; therefore, this reflects the mindset of the Chief Justice of Andhra High Court,” said Lateef Mohammad Khan, General Secretary, CLMC.
Khan said the judgment of the court to deny reservation to Muslims is equal to the denial of justice to Muslims, and alleged that the ruling Congress is not sincere on the issue, rather playing vote-bank politics.
“Instead of being sincere towards Muslims, Congress is playing vote bank politics. If at all, the government is interested and serious about this issue then the court’s decision would have not been like this. Civil Liberties believes that the governments interest in providing reservation to Muslims is nil and the government’s responsible ministers those who belong to the minority welfare ministry, are themselves unaware of the basic rules and laws of reservation. Until now four percent of reservation provided by the government was not up to the standard, instead the Muslims were tied up with the caste system. Whereas reservation should be given on the basis of social, economic and educational backwardness.”
Sachar committee has clearly stated that the condition of Muslims is worse than the Dalits. On the other side, Ranganath Mishra Commission was constituted to know the conditions of Minorities in India. After analyzing for many years, this commission submitted its report to the government of India in which it clearly said that Muslims should be given 10 percent of reservation and other minorities should be given 5 percent of reservation. “Even after clarification of these facts, if High Court of Andhra is not satisfied and quashed the reservation by saying that it is based on religion it can be said that High Court has not applied its mind and did not exercise its authority to justify with the Muslim community,” Khan said.
Civil liberties group has demanded the Central government to immediately implement the Ranganath Mishra Commission recommendations. Constitutional amendment should be made and all the Muslims of India should be given 10 percent and other minorities five percent of reservations. This is the need of justice.