“Table Misra report in Parliament”

TIRUNELVELI: Urging the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government to table the report of National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities in the Parliament during the current Budget session itself, the Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam has appealed to the Centre also to initiate earnest steps to implement the recommendations of the Commission without delay.

Speaking to reporters here on Sunday, TMMK president M.H. Jawahirullah said that the constituent political parties of UPA, which promised the minorities during last Lok Sabha polls of giving reservation to them in education and employment, had not taken efforts to implement the recommendations of the National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities even after its chairman and former Chief Justice of India, Justice Ranganath Misra, reportedly favoured 15 per cent reservation for the religious and linguistic minorities.

Hence, the Central government should table the report in the Parliament during the budget session itself and take steps to implement the recommendations without further delay, “as the UPA’s Common Minimum Programme promises reservation for religious and linguistic minorities”.

The TMMK had decided to write letters to all MPs of the constituent parties of UPA in this regard, he said.

Prof. Jawahirullah also appealed to Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi to immediately set right practical difficulties and anomalies in executing 3.5 per cent reservation being given by the State Government to Muslims in education and employment.

Referring to the recent bomb blast at Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh office in Tenkasi, the TMMK president, while complimenting the police for arresting the “real culprits” behind the incident, said that the police should make public “some of their findings.”

“The blast resembles in many ways the explosions took place at Macca mosque of Hyderabad and also at Nanded in Maharashtra. The police have reportedly recovered caps (similar to the skull caps being worn by Muslims) from the houses of the accused in the Tenkasi blast case during search operations. Hence this development cannot be treated as an ‘isolated incident’ and it has deep-rooted nationwide conspiracy as people arrested in connection with all these incidents are connected to Hindu organisations.”