Editor - On December 9, 2006 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Kohli said that Muslims will have first claim to the country’s resources. I was shocked. In school we were told that the Indian Constitution requires all its citizens to be treated equally and here is a PM who is telling the other communities they are second class citizens. Prior to that, in March 2005, the PM appointed a High Level Committee to prepare a report on the latest social, economic and educational condition of the Muslim community of India.
To my mind focusing on the economic etc aspects of one community is wrong. Starting about 2005-06 media reports quoted the committee, also known as the Sachar Committee, to tell us about the pitiable state of Muslims in India and thus justify concessions to them.
Such is the hype created that when Muslims in Tamil Nadu protested against the release of Kamal Hassan’s movie Vishwaroopam the first point made by a Muslim leader whilst speaking to a TV Channel was, do you know how poor the Muslims in Tamil Nadu are?
Most of know about the Congress party’s affection for the Muslim community starting 1920’s but post 2005 we never knew about how the Congress, through various government schemes, took this policy of appeasement to an unheard of level. In the absence of well researched and reliable data none could question the veracity of the facts stated in the Sachar Committee Report.
Fortunately two retired IPS Officers namely Ram Kumar Ohri and Jai Prakash Sharma took it upon themselves to question alleged Muslim backwardness along with details of status of poor Hindus and UPA’s divide and rule schemes. They presented these thoughts in a book titled ‘The Majority Report’ – Untold Story of Heart-Rending Discrimination against Hindus in ‘Our India’.
What we present is Appendix 2 and 3 from the book. It consists of a report titled ‘Social and Economic Status and Popular Perception of Muslims in India’ by Sanjay Kumar (Fellow), Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, presented on 2/9/2006 at I.I.P.A. New Delhi and Salient Points Highlighted.
Through a series of tables and analysis the report covers level of education and economic attainment among different communities, urban/rural levels of educational attainment of Hindus and Muslims, region and State wise levels of educational attainment and economic prosperity amongst Muslims. Last it refers to problems of the Muslim community.
It has become fashionable in India today to blame the Government for all our ills. We are reluctant to reflect and ask how we must change in order to progress”.
To read Sanjay Kumar’s report click on PDF file.
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