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Muslims seek job quota

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, 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. “No concrete measures for the uplift of the Muslim community have been spelt out. Now that the UPA Government has completed more than three years in office, there is growing disappointment in the minorities, particularly the Muslims community, as there has not been any political dialogue or efforts in and outside Parliament to create a national consensus on improving the condition of the community,” he told reporters.

He said the Sachar Committee had indicated that the Muslim community was as backward as the Scheduled Castes and Tribes and more backward than the non-Muslim OBCs.

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

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