Muslim Quota Bill

AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi opposed the women's reservation bill, saying it would benefit only "savarna women" and questioned why OBC and Muslim women are not being given any quota.

Two days after a minister in the Maharashta coalition government said a new bill to give 5 per cent reservation for Muslims in educational institutions will be introduced in the state assembly soon, the Shiv Sena, another member of the alliance, denied any such proposal.

A new bill to give 5 per cent reservation to Muslims in educational institutions in Maharashtra will be introduced in the state assembly soon,a minister in the coalition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government said today.This bill will be tabled during the budget session of the Maharashtra assembly, Minority Affairs Minister Nawab Malik said today.

The Constitutional Amendment Bill to ensure 10% reservation in education and government jobs for the economically weak has passed smoothly through parliament, but it may not be out of the woods just yet. The legislation is likely to face the judicial test in the coming days.

The government on Monday announced 10 per cent reservation in government jobs and higher education for economically weaker sections in the general category and said it would move a constitutional amendment bill to bring it into effect. The mega move, just months before the national election, was approved in a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minist...

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao today said his government will take up the bill providing 12 per cent reservation to Muslims, passed by the state legislature, with the Centre for its nod.

Dubbing the bill to hike reservation quota for Muslims, which was passed in the Telangana assembly yesterday, as a "trash paper", the BJP today said it has no legal and constitutional sanctity and would be "quashed" at the central government level.

The Telangana assembly has passed a bill to hike reservation in educational institutions and jobs for Muslims and Scheduled Tribes. Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday had moved a bill at a special session of the State legislative assembly that proposed to increase quota for Muslims from 4 per cent to 12 per cent and for Scheduled Tribes (...

The Telangana government on Saturday decided to hike the reservations for the socially and economically backward among Muslims to 12 per cent from the existing four per cent.

In a short while from now, the Rajya Sabha will vote on whether promotions in government jobs should be reserved for Dalits and tribals. The Samajwadi Party, which opposes the Bill and will vote against it, has now demanded reservation in promotions for Muslims in government jobs.

AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi opposed the women's reservation bill, saying it would benefit only "savarna women" and questioned why OBC and Muslim women are not being given any quota.

Two days after a minister in the Maharashta coalition government said a new bill to give 5 per cent reservation for Muslims in educational institutions will be introduced in the state assembly soon, the Shiv Sena, another member of the alliance, denied any such proposal.

A new bill to give 5 per cent reservation to Muslims in educational institutions in Maharashtra will be introduced in the state assembly soon,a minister in the coalition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government said today.This bill will be tabled during the budget session of the Maharashtra assembly, Minority Affairs Minister Nawab Malik said today.

The Constitutional Amendment Bill to ensure 10% reservation in education and government jobs for the economically weak has passed smoothly through parliament, but it may not be out of the woods just yet. The legislation is likely to face the judicial test in the coming days.

The government on Monday announced 10 per cent reservation in government jobs and higher education for economically weaker sections in the general category and said it would move a constitutional amendment bill to bring it into effect. The mega move, just months before the national election, was approved in a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minist...

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao today said his government will take up the bill providing 12 per cent reservation to Muslims, passed by the state legislature, with the Centre for its nod.

Dubbing the bill to hike reservation quota for Muslims, which was passed in the Telangana assembly yesterday, as a "trash paper", the BJP today said it has no legal and constitutional sanctity and would be "quashed" at the central government level.

The Telangana assembly has passed a bill to hike reservation in educational institutions and jobs for Muslims and Scheduled Tribes. Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday had moved a bill at a special session of the State legislative assembly that proposed to increase quota for Muslims from 4 per cent to 12 per cent and for Scheduled Tribes (...

The Telangana government on Saturday decided to hike the reservations for the socially and economically backward among Muslims to 12 per cent from the existing four per cent.

In a short while from now, the Rajya Sabha will vote on whether promotions in government jobs should be reserved for Dalits and tribals. The Samajwadi Party, which opposes the Bill and will vote against it, has now demanded reservation in promotions for Muslims in government jobs.