Minorities News

Mehmood-ur-Rahman committee has recommended 8-10% reservations for Muslims in education and jobs in Maharashtra. The committee report says that about 60% of one-crore Muslims live below the poverty line, just 2% complete graduation and have poor share in IAS(1%) and police force(4%) in Maharashtra. Meanwhile, BJP slammed the report timing calling it a pre-poll tactics by Congress to gain Muslim-votes.

Bowing to criticism from the BJP and regional parties, the government on Thursday agreed to rework the Prevention of Communal Violence Bill. The new draft bill uses a community-neutral definition to identify a group that may fall victim to communal violence. Centre's role in control of communal violence in states will be limited to that of a coordinator and facilitator.