HYDERABAD: Coming down heavily on backward class organisations for questioning the backwardness of minorities and filing a petition in the High Court against the Centre's decision to provide 4.5 per cent reservation to minorities, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen president Asaduddin Owaisi has called upon the Muslims to question the backwardness of backward classes and challenge the reservation provided to them.“The Centre provided reservation to minority community on the basis of empirical data prepared by a panel headed by ex-Chief Justice of India Ranganath Misra, which was constituted by the government to look into the issues of linguistic and religious minorities. But, basing on which empirical data did the OBCs get the 27 per cent reservation? Is it fair?'' Owaisi asked.Describing the High Court judgment as erroneous, he said the court said there was no homogeneity between any two minority groups. "In such case, what homogeneity could one find between any two castes among the 93 castes included in the OBC list like say, Yadav and Kurma or Gouda and Munnuru Kapu?" he asked. There was discrimination on the part of the court while questioning the homogeneity between two minority groups. The court failed to appreciate the government's decision to provide reservation to minorities, he said.Despite the Ranganath Misra Committee finding backwardness of the minority community, the Centre failed to provide 10 per cent or at least 8 per cent reservation. The MIM president also lashed out at the Congress for not taking up the issue of reservation for minorities seriously. While the government sent the attorney-general to argue petty cases in courts, it sent only the assistant attorney-general in this case which showed its lack of seriousness, he alleged. He demanded that the Centre file a petition in the Supreme Court to get a stay on the High Court verdict to enable minority students to get admissions to IITs and other central institutions.
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