Lok Jan Shakti Party on Tuesday said that minorities should be given reservation by enhancing the 50 per cent limit fixed by the Supreme Court and not by taking out a portion for them from the Other Backward Classes’(OBC) share of 27 per cent.
Demanding that the government implement the Ranganath Mishra Commission report, LJP secretary-general Abdul Khaliq said any attempt to take out a portion for minorities from the 27 per cent reservation already available to OBCs will create tension. “The government should approach the Supreme Court for raising the 50 per cent limit on reservation.”
Mr. Khaliq said that Centre should provide reservation in the manner done in Tamil Nadu and recently in Rajasthan. “The Tamil Nadu government gives 67 per cent reservation to various communities in the State and the Rajasthan government recently announced an additional 15 per cent reservation in excess of 50 per cent to the economically backward class in the State.”
The party also demanded that Scheduled Caste Muslims and Scheduled Caste Christians be included in the SC category as recommended by the Ranganath Mishra Commission.
The population Census of 2011 across the country should be done on caste basis to get “a clear picture of the number and spread of castes.”
Keywords: LJP, Ram Vilas Paswan, minorities, Ranganatha Mishra report, Muslims, OBC, quota
