By TCN News,
Nizamabad: The Muslim Empower Movement [MEM] on the minorities’ day submitted a memorandum seeking adequate actions from the Union government to provide justice to minorities. The memorandum reminded the union government of the UN declaration on minority rights 1992.
The memorandum was submitted through the district collector to the Prime Minister of India and Union ministers including the welfare minister, law minister, parliamentary affairs minister and minority affairs minister.
Quoting the National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities [NCRLM], popularly known as the Ranganath Misra commission’s report that caste should be delinked from the religion; they demanded the deletion of the discriminatory Para-3 of the constitutions, schedule caste order 1950. They accused the union government of shelving the report rather than enacting it and thus making the SC Muslims and Christians suffer further injustice.
The memorandum brought in to notice the NCRLM recommendation that once a person has been included in the SC list, a wilful change of religion on his/her part should not adversely affect his/her status; as a change of religion does not alter the socio-economic status of the Dalits.
The memorandum sought immediate actions from the government based on the NCRLM recommended measures to overcome educational, economic and employment backwardness of the religious minorities.
The demands put forward by MEM through the memorandum were:
• Table the NCRLM Report in the Parliament with Action Taken Report [ATR]; Implement all its recommendations without any further delay.
• Give appropriate answer to the query of the Supreme Court to the writ petition demanding deletion of the unjust para-3 of the constitution schedule castes order 1950 to extent schedule caste status to Muslims and Christians of schedule caste origin.
• Government should increase the budget for the minorities in the coming 12th five year plan and stringent the disbursement mechanism of the budget, central and state level schemes; so that the entire allotted budgets and schemes reach the beneficiary among the minority communities.
• Table the communal violence bill 2009, in the parliamentary house immediately in order to stop the recurrence of barbarous acts like Gujarat riots, the aftermaths of Babri Masjid demolition etc on the minorities of this country; which have even outraged the conscience of humanity.
• Justice providing measures on all those unlawful detentions, illegal arrests, custodial violence and deaths, encounter deaths, atrocities, rape and murder, sexual harassments and indignity to women’s, innocents who have been falsely implicated in the communal riots across India.