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Muslims seek job quota

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI: About a dozen non-political groups of Muslims have formed a Joint Committee of Muslim Organisations for Empowerment, demanding recognition of the community as a backward class with a separate sub-quota for reservation in government jobs, higher education, development schemes and flow of bank credit.

As the first step, the joint committee demanded that an in-depth discussion should be held in the coming session of Parliament on the status of Muslims in the country, report of the Sachar Committee as well as that of Justice Ranganath Mishra Commission for considering the question of reservation.

Addressing a press conference here on Monday, Syed Shahabuddin, former MP who is also president of the All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat (AIMMM), said that neither the recommendations of the Sachar Committee nor those of Justice Mishra Commission were being implemented with the urgency that they deserved.

Protest on August 14

Mr. Shahabuddin said that Muslim organisations would hold a “token protest” in the Capital on August 14 and submit memoranda to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee and Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, the former Vice-President. He said that the parties such as the CPI(M) and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) had been sympathetic to the demands of the Muslim community.

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