Malegaon: The Centre is proposing to introduce reservation for Muslims in educational institutions and employment on the lines of Andhra Pradesh government, Union Minister for Law and Justice Salman Khursheed indicated in Hyderabad Sunday, a media report claims.
 

“I don't know whether it is a Bill. There will be separate reservation. It is not necessary to have another Bill. It may be done through a government notification. We are having it examined", The Hindu quoted Slaman Khursheed as saying.

Khursheed was talking to reporters after participating in a ‘Solidarity Meeting on Palestine' organised by the Indo-Arab League in Hyderabad.

He said that the OBC Commission would have some role in surveying and deciding what percentage of reservation should be extended.

“We may have to make some changes in the law regarding this. What we want to give is on the lines of what Andhra Pradesh has already done. Therefore, we will follow that model quite closely", he added.

The minister also said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi wanted the proposal to be placed before the Union Cabinet.
 

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