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VHP calls Rangnath Commission report unconstitutional
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Friday rejected the Justice Rangnath Mishra Commission report recommending 10 per cent reservation for Muslims, saying that religion based reservation was unconstitutional.
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Friday 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 on Friday.
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 in New Delhi.
"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.
