Telangana Joint Action Committee mobilises Muslims on reservation issue
Nirmal: After mobilising unemployed youth and students for jobs, Telangana JAC, led by Prof M. Kodandaram, is now mobilising Muslim minorities on 12 per cent reservation promised to them by TRS Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao. The TJAC has identified nearly 18 organisations working for the welfare and empowerment of the Muslim minorities in the state and is trying to coordinate with them on the issue.
The TJAC is organising meetings with the leaders of various minority organisations and Muslims in all the districts and is making them know the importance of implementation of recommendations of G. Sudheer Commission, which suggested 9-12 per cent reservations to Muslim minorities.
A meeting with Muslim minorities will be held in Nirmal on March 5 in which Prof. Kodandaram will participate and chalk out the action plan on the quota promised by the CM. A massive rally by the Muslims is being planned in Hyderabad to mount pressure on the state government on the implementation of 12 per cent reservation. Regional coordinator of TJAC Arepalli Vijay Kumar told this newspaper that a meeting will be held in Nirmal to mobilise the Muslim minorities and for this various Muslim organisations would be made to get involved.
He said there was no meaning in giving a one-year extension to Sudheer Commission after it submitted its report to the state government. It is nothing but delaying the implementation of the promise the government gave to the Muslim minorities during the hustings. It is learnt that the TJAC leaders are coordinating with various Muslim minority organisations which actively participated in the Telangana agitation and also other outfits agitating for the 12 per cent reservation.
Political observers say that mobilising the Muslim minorities is going to be a tough job, unlike farmers and students and unemployed youth. Muslims associated with the MIM may not extend their support to the TJAC in its agitation on reservation as MIM is a friendly party to the ruling TRS.
