By TwoCircles.net staff reporter
New Delhi : The Congress, during its successive governments at the Centre and/or in the various States, has played the Muslim card exploiting Muslim sentiments and playing with their emotions just to ensure the Muslim vote bank in Muslim concentration areas. The latest in the series is the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s advice to State governments to deploy Muslims in Muslim areas.
In a letter to all State governments and Union Territories issued Wednesday the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has directed that there should be more Muslim policemen, teachers and health workers in Muslim dominated areas. This is particularly in context where there is great deal of public hearing.
So, an election-bound coalition is perhaps preparing for the inevitable by putting Justice Sachar Committee recommendations on a fast track.
"This is not unprecedented. Even during Indira Gandhi’s time such letters were written to chief ministers; however it’s another thing that they were not followed," Member Secretary of the Sachar Commission, Abu Saleh Sharif said.
DoPT has also directed Union Home, Health and Human Resource Development ministries to frame guidelines for these postings in minority concentration areas although Home, Health and Education appointments are a prerogative of state governments and the advisory is not
binding.
The Government has so far accepted 72 out of the 76 recommendations by the Sachar Commission.
The Government has however rejected the recommendation to have a caste-based census, and the other contentious issue of Muslim reservations has been put on a backburner.