By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
New Delhi: Leading from front in efforts by the Muslim community to put pressure on the central government to table the Ranganath Misra Commission report in the Parliament, Janata Dal-U Rajya Sabha MP from Bihar Ali Anwar yesterday showed a zerox copy of the Misra report in the Upper House and demanded the government to make it officially public as it is already being circulated unofficially.
During the Zero Hour on Wednesday Ali Anwar stood up from his seat and showing a copy of the report to the House he said: As it is under circulation unofficially to every where why the government cannot make it public by tabling it in the House.
TCN has been publishing the excerpts from the Misra report since the second week of June. The commission has recommended 15% reservation for minorities with 10% only to Muslims. There are several reports concerning minority community on which the government has been sitting for decades. A couple of months back TCN published the Advocate Ravi Chandra report which talked about custodial torture of innocent Muslim youths detained in connection with some terror blasts in Hyderabad. The state minority commission had been sitting on it for over a year. The disclosure of the report just two weeks before the general and assembly elections created a furor in the state.
A day earlier attending a roundtable conference on Muslims’ development agenda at India International Centre in New Delhi, wherein several Muslim Members of Parliament, bureaucrats and religious and community leaders were attending, Ali Anwar had raised the similar issue strongly.
In the program he had said that even Vice President of India has not seen the report. He said he provided a copy of the report to VP.
In an online poll being carried out by TCN, 56% of voters so far want the Ranganath Misra report be made public and debated while 33% want its implementation without any debate. Only 5% are those who do not want it be made public.
The question asked in the poll is: What should be done with Ranganath Misra Commission report?
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