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 Schemes for minorities need fair implementation: Khurshid:
The government is committed to the welfare of minorities but
“fairness” in implementing schemes is needed to avoid questions....
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Govt. should stop playing game
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Hyderabad:
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said there was a need to create
"broad-based national consensus" on the issue of reservations to
Muslim community.
Responding to a memorandum submitted by Jamiat Ulama-I- Hind, Singh
in a letter to the organisation's president Moulana Qari Mohammed
Osman, said the government is committed to the welfare of the
minorities, according to a release issued by Jamiat Andhra Pradesh
unit here today.
There was a need for "broad-based national consensus" to move
forward on the issue of reservations to the Muslim community, the
Prime Minister said.
Highlighting the measures taken up for the welfare of the Muslim
community, Singh said the budget of the Ministry of Minority Affairs
has gone up from Rs 500 crore in 2007 to Rs 2600 crore in 2010-11.
However the community leaders feel
that Prime Minister is playing a delaying tactics on the issue. They
say, he had promised the same thing earlier too when Muslim MPs
cutting across the party lines met him few months back. The Prime
Minister to the Muslim MPs had also promised to form a parliamentary
committee to look into other issues facing the community.
Former Dy Speaker of Bihar Assembly
and General Secretary of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB)
Maualana Wali Rahmani reacting on the statement said the time for
forming committees and building consensus has gone, 'it is time now
to take action'.
“Justice Ranganath Mishra Commission
Report was gathering the dust for years. Now after so many years
when it is tabled in the parliament, we are being told that there is no
provision in the constitution for reservation on the basis of
religion and consensus is needed on the issue”, he recalled.
“How long the government needs to
create consensus? Was a retired respectable
Supreme Court Justice so naive that he did not know simple things before
recommending it in his report? Was the consensus built when the
government decided to give reservation to others?, he asked.
"The government is actually playing
game with Indian Muslims. In the last more than sixty years, it has
done very little and has publicised more", he said lambasting the government over Madrasa reforms, misuse of
waqf lands, flip-flop on minority reservation and poor
handling of the welfare schemes meant for the minorities.
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