NEW DELHI: The president of the Insaf Party, Syed Shahab ud din, of Insaf Party, has demanded “universal reservation” including got as for India’s high castes and all religious minorities.
Ina letter to prime minister V P Singh, he said implementing the Mandal commission report that recommends job reservation for the country’s backward classes, without taking into account the modifications suggested by various organisations, including the national union of backward classes, the scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and minorities and without introducing rational checks on the misuse of reservation by relatively advanced sections of backward classes had not only left many groups dissatisfied but also fuelled the Anti-reservation agitation.
The letter, dated August 23, but released to the press Monday, said, religious minorities in India such as Muslims, Christians, Sikhs or Buddhists should be treated as a social entity.
“The reservation system must be so tuned as to benefit the backward sections of each of them, provided, by common and uniformly applicable standards, the group as such is found to be a ‘backward class’, he said.
‘Suggesting that a separate quota of 6 per cent be instituted for the Muslim community, Shahabuddin said, “This would ensure that Muslims are not swallowed up by the “big fish’.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 7, 1990
