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PIL in Supreme Court seeks minority status for Hindus in eight states,

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BJP leader Ashwini Kumar seeks minority status for Hindus in eight states, files PIL in Supreme Court


A Delhi BJP leader filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court on Tuesday, seeking a grant of minority status to Hindus in eight states of the country.
According to a Financial Express report, advocate and BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay sought minority status for Hindus in eight states where the community's population has fallen, according to the 2011 Census — Lakshadweep (2.5 percent), Mizoram (2.75 percent), Nagaland (8.75 percent), Meghalaya (11.53 percent), Jammu and Kashmir (28.44 percent), Arunachal Pradesh (29 percent), Manipur (31.39 percent) and Punjab (38.40 percent).
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Upadhyay said Hindus are being deprived of their minority rights illegally and arbitrarily to the majority population in these states, as neither the central nor the state governments have notified them as a 'minority' under the National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992.
"Christians are a majority in Mizoram, Meghalaya and Nagaland, and there is a significant population in of Christians in Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Kerala, Manipur, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal as well. But they are still treated as a minority. Likewise, Sikhs are a majority in Punjab and there is a significant Sikh population in Delhi, Chandigarh and Haryana, but they are also treated as a minority," the petition read.


According to a report in The Tribune, Upadhyay said, "Their (Hindus) minority rights are being siphoned off illegally and arbitrarily to the majority population because neither central nor the state governments have notified Hindus as a 'minority' under Section 2 (c) of the NCM Act. Therefore, Hindus are being deprived of their basic rights guaranteed under articles 25 to 30 of the Constitution."
The petition also poses a challenge to a central government notification of 23 October,1993, under which five communities — Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsis — were notified as minority communities.
Upadhyay contended that Hindus were treated as a majority in these states despite being a minority in the population. "The Union government offered 20,000 scholarships in the field of technical education for minority students. In Jammu and Kashmir, Muslims are 68.3 percent and the government allotted 717 out of 753 scholarships to Muslim students, but none to Hindus citing notification on minority communities dated 23 October, 1993, which declares Muslims as a minority, but not the Hindus," the Tribune report quoted him as saying.


 
The reason for the delay is to wait till Hindus become Minority in all States and then the implementation is simple.
 
Except in India and Nepal, hindus are minoroties else where in world. Is there any such benifits extended to the Hindu Community else where?
 
Every one in India will come under minority status in some term or other. The person may belong to a Religion, Community, Language, Varna, Caste or something else, all will belong to numerically minority . This is an unending list. Why can't we do away all reservations in the name of minority and majority. All welfare activities should be based on the economic conditions of the citizens of the nation. Social inequality is separate subject, equality should be brought by implementation of strict laws.
Mandal commission based on caste details taken in 1931, has suggested many other important steps, apart from reservations, to be followed for the upliftment of backward communities. I wonder why the ruling parties have not takenup them.
(Those who are interested can read the full report in two volumes available in internet sources.)

Brahmanyan
Bangalore.
 
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a petition seeking its direction to Centre to grant minority status to Hindus in eight states.


A bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi said that issue needed to be decided by National Commission for Minorities and asked the petition to approach the commission.


The public interest litigation (PIL) sought minority status to Hindus in eight states- Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Lakshadweep, Mizoram, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur.


The PIL, filed by advocate
Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, has said that Hindus are minority in these states but their legitimate benefits are being siphoned of arbitrarily to the majority, because of non-identification and non-notification of minorities at the State level.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...rity-in-eight-states/articleshow/61589757.cms
 
Good decision by Supreme Court. There is no need to open "Pandora's box". We are already divided enough in the name of so many parameters of minority and majority. Even the original Constitution wanted the reservation for SC/ST for ten years only. But the politicians extended the period and content permanently.

Brahmanyan
Bangalore.
 
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