Ahmedabad: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad
(VHP) today rejected the Justice Rangnath Mishra Commission
report recommending 10 per cent reservation for Muslims,
saying that religion based reservation was unconstitutional.
The report of the National Commission for Religious
and Linguistic Minorities, headed by former Chief Justice of
India Ranganath Mishra, was tabled by Minority Affairs
Minister Salman Khurshid in the Lok Sabha today.
The Commission has recommended 10 per cent reservation
for Muslims and five per cent for other minorities in
government jobs and favoured Scheduled Caste status for
Dalits.
"VHP rejects in toto the Rangnath commission report
because it is unconstitutional, anti-national and anti-Hindu,"
VHP international general secretary Dr Praveen Togadia told
mediapersons here.
"Khurshid who had recently called salaries of CEOs as
vulgar, has by tabling the Rangnath Commission report shown
the country his 'constitutional vulgarity'," he said.
Among a host of recommendations, the Commission
recommended delinking of Scheduled Caste status from religion
and abrogation of the 1950 Scheduled Caste Order which "still
excludes Muslims, Christians, Jains and Parsis from SC net."
Togadia also warned of a nation-wide agitation if the
government accepts the Commission's report.
PTI
First Published: Friday, December 18, 2009, 22:52