New Delhi, December 05: For how long will muslims be taken for a joy ride by politicians.muslims have ruled over this country for more than 800 years but their condition in secular democratic india in the last 65 years is worst than schedule caste ,schedule tribes and backward classes and justice sachar has rightly pointed out the pathetic condition of indian muslims.now muslims account for approximately 20 plus percentage of up population and whose help (votes) are crucial to occupy both gaddis in lucknow and delhi.
The famous saying that ” delhi door ast ” is now realised by all the political parties like congress ,bsp ,sp and even bjp realises that keeping muslims happy and in good mood will be benificial to the party than to antagonise muslims votes and make them vote stratigically and lose the seats.
Mayawati fired her first salvo by writing two letters to PM Manmohan Singh arguing for muslim reservation in jobs and education.
Now Rahul Baba is active in up, and he see’s his political future in up. rahul has targetted mayawati and wants to win muslim votes at any cost, till now muslims were voting stratergically from constituency to constituency and from party to party, even though the muslims of up are not only illiterate but also most backward financially and yet their vision is to see that bjp loses election. this stratergic voting by muslims has robbed bjp in the past years.
In 2007 assembly elections, congress won just 21 assembly seats where as in 2009 parliamentry elections, congress won 22 parliamentry seats which is a big achievement for the baba brigade. this parliamentry seats are basically from the muslims dominated areas. congress wants to apply the same masala formula to win the hearts of muslims and secure the delhi gaddi for rahul baba.
THE CONGRESS party and the UPA government at the Centre are gearing up for Uttar Pradesh polls with a not- so- subtle attempt to hire Muslims in public sector enterprises, banks, financial institutions and most importantly, the railways, the biggest Indian employer after the army.
The government also plans to unleash a publicity campaign to tomtom its plans and achievements in affirmative action just six months before the crucial UP assembly polls.
Strictly speaking, the order ought to benefit all the minorities. But Muslims being the single largest component among minorities, they would be the biggest beneficiaries of this attempt to bring in diversity in public sector jobs without prescribing a quota of any kind.
It cannot be a coincidence that the government suddenly woke up to implement this five- year- old plan soon after Mayawati sought job quotas for Muslims by writing twice to the Prime Minister in the last few months. Interestingly, the minority affairs minister Salman Khurshid had only recently offered a slice of the Other Backward Community quota pie to the Muslims.
Congress is struggling to rebuild its old Brahmin- Dalit- Muslim vote base in UP that got eroded over the years with Maya taking away the Dalits and Maulana Mulayam emerging as the messiah of the Muslims. While Brahmins, upset with Maya, may be willing to experiment with the Congress again, the Muslims too show signs of wariness with Mulayam, though they feel cheated by the Congress.
Zafryab Gilani, member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, points out the dismissal situation of Muslim representation in central PSUs: “ The governments at the Centre and the states have been cheating the Muslims for the last six decades.
They make promises but don’t really do anything for them. They didn’t do anything to ensure jobs for Muslims in railways, banks and central PSUs. But every now and then they issue statements that Muslims should be part of the 27 per cent OBC quota. We don’t know how they will do this. But we know that Muslims are worse than Dalits and they need reservation in jobs.” The department of personnel and training has issued a circular on November 17, asking various ministries to ensure representation of Dalits, tribals and the minorities in the selection committees so that the recruitment process will be inclusive and representative.
“ The composition of selection committees should be representative.
It should be mandatory to have one member belonging to SC/ ST and one member belonging to minority community in selection boards/ committees for making recruitment to 10 or more vacancies,” writes joint secretary, establishment, Mamta Kundra reminding the ministries of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s ‘ New 15 Point Programme’ and an office memo of January 8, 2007.
The reminder, probably the first in the last five years, was issued because of the drop in the hiring of members of the minority community in various public sector units. “ While reviewing the intake of minorities during the reporting period April 1, 2009, to March 31, 2010, the committee of secretaries had noted that the share of minority community candidates in recruitment had come down compared to the previous reporting period.” Equally interesting is the decision to organise campaigns to publicise the government’s effort to empower minorities through affirmative action. The DoPT circular points out that though all the ministries were asked to appoint a joint secretary level officer as early as 2008 to coordinate affirmative action and to furnish annual data of recruitment of minorities, there has been no feedback from these ministries all these years.
The circular concludes with the instruction that “ the nodal officer nominated in the ministry may also be advised to look into the deficiencies in the past in organising campaigns in regard to the affirmative action of recruitment of minorities in the ministry/ PSU/ autonomous bodies and take corrective measure immediately. The action proposed to be taken in this regard may be intimated to this department with copy to ministry of minority affairs.” Anees Masoori, president of UP’s pasmanda Muslim samaj slams the move as opportunistic, “ The Congress has used the Muslim vote bank more crudely than any other party. Instead of giving assurances, the Congress- led UPA should work to clear 8.44 per cent reservation in jobs ( within the 27 per cent OBC quota) to Muslims. Salman Khursheed is giving a statement that the Muslims would be given six per cent reservation within the OBC quota only because he wants the fundamentalist parties to oppose it. In that case, the Congress would be able to say that they wanted to do so but the opposition parties didn’t support it. This is a poll time gimmick of the Congress.”
——Agencies