Shabbir asks CM to implement 12% quota for Muslims, STs in ongoing recruitment drive

Hyderabad, March 25 (Maxim News): Former minister and former Leader of Opposition in Telangana Legislative Council Mohammed Ali Shabbir on Friday demanded that Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao implement 12% reservation for both Muslims and Scheduled Tribes in the ongoing recruitment drive to fill nearly 80,039 vacancies. He said the Chief Minister must implement the quota and fight a legal battle later if it gets stopped by the court of law.

Talking to media persons at Gandhi Bhavan on Friday on the occasion of completion of 12 years of Supreme Court permitting the continuance of 4% Muslim quota in education and jobs in undivided Andhra Pradesh and referring the matter to the Constitution Bench for final hearing, Shabbir Ali said “March 25 is an important date in the history and struggle for Muslim reservation. It was on this day in 2010 when the Supreme Court permitted the continuance of 4% reservation in jobs and education for Muslims under the BC-E category which was struck down by the High Court. Originally, Congress president Sonia Gandhi promised 5% Muslim reservation in 2004 Election Manifesto. The promise was implemented in just 58 days after coming to power by the Congress Government headed by Dr Y.S. Rajashekhara Reddy. The quota was later reduced to 4% on the orders of the High Court.

Shabbir Ali said the case was yet to come up for hearing as the Constitution Benches, constituted thrice, could not take up the matter due to technical reasons. “Since TRS Govt was showing lack of seriousness in fighting the case, I got impleaded in the case and senior Supreme Court Lawyer Salman Khursheed is representing the case in the Supreme Court. We will do whatever it takes to defend the ongoing 4% Muslim quota,” he said.

He announced that the Congress party was launching a mass contact program to get in touch with nearly 22 lakh beneficiaries of 4% Muslim reservation in both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh State. “Nearly 22 Lakh Muslim students, including 13 to 14 Lakh poor Muslims in Telangana who benefited from 4% reservation policy will be approached. Group meetings will be held with professionals/students like Doctors, Engineers, MBAs, Lawyers and others who benefit from 4% quota policy. Our target is to meet each and every family and individual who benefited from the Congress policy and seek their support in defeating communal TRS and BJP in the next elections,” he said.

Congress senior leaders including Sk Afzaluddin, Sameer Waliullah, Wajid Hussain, Mateen Shareef and Osman Khan were also present. (Maxim News)

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