Justice Sachar disapproves quota for Muslim women

Kolkata, Mar 20 (PTI) Justice (Retd) Rajinder Singh
Sachar, who headed the committee that surveyed the condition
of Muslims in India, Saturday said he did not favour a
sub-quota for Muslim women within the 33 per cent reservation
for women in the Lower House Lok Sabha and state assemblies.

"I do not want the sub-quota within the quota of 33
per cent. But, I favour seat reservation for women as they are
a deprived section," Justice Rajinder Singh Sachar who
prepared the report on the social, economic and educational
status of women, said on the sidelines of a seminar organised
by Calcutta Research Group in the eastern metropolis.
Arguing that creation of a sub-quota as demanded by Lalu
Prasad and Mulayam Singh Yadav would further weaken the women,
he said, "It will split them. Women as a block are the most
deprived in the country, whether Hindus, Muslims or
Christians."
"The sole aim should be their empowerment as a whole.
Gender injustice is rampant in the country," he said.
Besides, reservation of seats for Muslim and Other
Backward Classes women would increase male chauvinism which is
bad, he said.
Giving example of many reserved Lok Sabha and assembly
seats where Muslim population is as much as 40 per cent and
the population of SC/ST is 10.15 per cent, the seats should be
made 'open'. MORE PTI AMD
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