Reservation for Muslims sought

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, DEC. 2. The All-India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat (AIMMM) has reiterated its opposition to the reservation for women in legislatures without providing reservation for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and the minorities.

In a statement, the AIMMM president, Syed Shahabuddin, asserted that reservation for women without providing for the OBCs and the minorities would be unjust and anti-democratic. He said the bill, would amount to maintaining ``the traditional over-representation of the higher castes and that over-representation of some social groups (through its women) and under-representation for the others''.

He has proposed, instead, that the women's bill ``be amended to provide reservation for the OBCs and the minorities, separately for the Muslims, in proportion to population and then, an across- the-board quota for the one-third reservation for women as in the case of the SCs and the STs.''

The AIMMM also suggests that ``the Representation of the People Act should be amended to mandate the political parties to give at least one-third of the party ticket in any election to women''.

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