{"id":903,"date":"2010-03-27T02:09:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T20:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mohamediqbalp.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/27\/islam-and-christianity-are-alien-to-india-so-cannot-get-quota-bjp\/"},"modified":"2010-03-27T02:09:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T20:39:43","slug":"islam-and-christianity-are-alien-to-india-so-cannot-get-quota-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/03\/27\/islam-and-christianity-are-alien-to-india-so-cannot-get-quota-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Islam and Christianity are alien to India, so cannot get quota: BJP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"title\">Islam, Christianity alien, so cannot get quota: BJP<\/h1>\n<div class=\"node\">\n<div class=\"submitted\">Submitted by admin4 on 26 March 2010 &#8211; 7:47pm.<\/div>\n<div class=\"taxonomy\">\n<ul class=\"links inline\">\n<li class=\"first last taxonomy_term_1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twocircles.net\/news\/indian-muslim\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"Indian Muslim\" class=\"taxonomy_term_1\">Indian Muslim<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>By IANS,<\/p>\n<p>New Delhi : &#8220;Islam and Christianity are alien&#8221; to India and,  therefore, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) feels people from the  minority groups, even if their socio-economic condition is low, should  not be given the privilege of quota in jobs, legislative bodies and  education, a party official said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference here, BJP&#8217;s newly-appointed spokesperson  Ramnath Kovind called for scrapping of the Ranganath Misra commission  report that recommends 15 percent quota in government jobs for socially  and economically backward sections among religious and linguistic  minorities in India.\t<\/p>\n<p>The National Commission on Religious and Linguistic Minorities,  headed by Justice Ranganath Misra, former chief justice of India, has in its report also recommended inclusion of Muslim and Christian converts  as Scheduled Castes and given a quota to that category.\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, that is not possible,&#8221; said Kovind. &#8220;Including Muslims and  Christians in the Scheduled Castes category will be unconstitutional.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Asked how Sikh Dalits were enjoying the quota privilege in the same  category, Kovind said: &#8220;Islam and Christianity are alien to the nation.&#8221; \t<\/p>\n<p>He said that &#8220;it is very well known&#8221; that convert Dalit Christians  and Muslims get better education in convent schools.\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The educational level of Scheduled Caste children remains much lower than that of convert Dalits and Muslims. The children of converts will  grab major share of reservation in government jobs. They would become  eligible to contest elections on seats reserved for Scheduled Castes.  This would encourage conversion and fatally destroy the fabric of Indian society,&#8221; he said.\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Misra commission report should be scrapped because (its  recommendations) will jeopardise the interests of Scheduled Castes,&#8221; he  said.\t<\/p>\n<p>The Misra panel report, which was tabled in parliament Dec 18, 2009,  has defined religious and linguistic minorities as backward classes and  recommended 15 percent reservation for all minorities in jobs, education and welfare schemes. <\/p>\n<p>Of India&#8217;s 1.2 billion population, Muslims form the largest minority  at close to 14 percent, followed by Christians at 2.3 percent, Sikhs at  1.9 percent, Buddhists at 0.8 percent, Jains at 0.4 percent and others  including Parsis at 0.6 percent.\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Within the recommended 15 percent earmarked seats in institutions  shall be 10 percent for the Muslims and the remaining 5 percent for the  other minorities,&#8221; the report had suggested.\t<\/p>\n<p>The recommendations have triggered a row with Hindu parties severely  opposing it. The government itself is doubtful about the implementation  of the recommendations. <\/p>\n<p>However, the Supreme Court in a ruling Thursday gave legitimacy to  minority reservation by allowing four percent quota in jobs for backward Muslims in Andhra Pradesh. This could give a push to the Congress to go ahead with implementing the Ranganath Misra report recommendations.\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=b5b7da9a-c5d6-8dc7-9679-af39aa5c653b\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islam, Christianity alien, so cannot get quota: BJP Submitted by admin4 on 26 March 2010 &#8211; 7:47pm. 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