‘Centre is neglecting Muslims in govt jobs’
All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday accused the Centre of neglecting Muslims and demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi tell how many of them got government jobs, including in central paramilitary forces.
He said despite the prime minister’s 15-point programme expressly stating that all efforts would be made to increase the share of the minorities in central government jobs, little was done about it.
“CRPF, CISF, ITPB, they all come under central government. You (the BJP) have been in office for the last four years. The prime minister loudly claims he would like to give Quran in one hand and computer in the other. So, what have you done (for Muslims) in the last four years? In the last four years, under central sector, whether banks, whether railways, central paramilitary forces.How many recruitments of minorities have taken place?” Owaisi said.
Earlier, addressing an event, the Hyderabad Lok Sabha member demanded figures about the presence of “very few” Muslims in central paramilitary forces. Owaisi claimed the current NDA dispensation discontinued the practice of issuing data on minorities in government jobs.
“I challenge the government of India to please issue data. You see the website of ministry of minority affairs where is the data on how many from minorities, including Muslims and Christians, got jobs in various government departments? It used to be given till 2013,” he said.
He rejected Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi’s purported claim that the share of Muslims in central government jobs had increased under the NDA government.
Owaisi said a media report had claimed there was “not a single” Muslim in the elite National Security Guards (NSG).
He claimed the department of personnel and training had in a 2007 circular said a Dalit, a member of the Schedule Caste and one from a religious minority will be on the selection committee wherever 10 people or more were to be recruited to ensure adequate representation of minorities in jobs.
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