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NDF welcomes decision on quota

Special Correspondent

KOZHIKODE: Welcoming the United Democratic Front (UDF) Government's initiatives on the reservation issue, the National Development Front (NDF), which has been campaigning for promoting the interests of the Muslim community, has put off a protest march it planned on the issue.

In a statement here on Saturday, NDF general secretary Nasaruddin Elamaram welcomed the Government's recent decision to ensure that further denial of reservation benefits would not happen. However, it objected to the decision to provide 10 per cent reservation for poorer sections among forward communities and expressed disappointment over the absence of initiative to clear the backlog in recruitment. The NDF leadership will give more time to the ruling and Opposition parties to do whatever remains to done to ensure adequate reservation benefits for minorities and backward communities. NDF's supreme council, its top decision-making body, expressed surprise at the readiness with which the Left Democratic Front (LDF) had welcomed the decision to provide 10 per cent reservation for poor members of forward communities.

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