Dr Zafar Mahmood also made a PowerPoint presentation through which he explained that in the Lok Sabha, @13.4% (i.e. national Muslim population), there should be 73 Muslims. But during the period of 62 years from 1952 to 2014, the average number of Muslims in Lok Sabha has been less than 27. The situation in state assemblies is worse. As per Sachar Committee, the main reason of this paradox is that most of the Muslim predominant constituencies have been reserved for Scheduled Castes while the constituencies with much lesser Muslim percentage with very high SC presence have not been reserved. He gave the examples of Nagina (UP) and Karimganj (Assam) parliamentary constituencies where, as per Census, Muslims comprise more than 50% with negligible SC visibility; these have been reserved for SCs. He also reeled out a list of assembly constituencies like Bagaha (Bihar), Khargram (West Bengal), Bahraich (UP) etc. Thats why Sachar Committee recommended that the Delimitation Commission should be told to remove these anomalies. But the Govt of India during the last seven years has not even talked about this important Sachar recommendation.
Posted on: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 15:32:20 +0000
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