No State patronage on basis of religion

In a letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Union minister for minority affairs Rahman Khan has said that 4.5 per cent reservation for minorities, which has been struck down by a high court, could be revived by narrowing its focus to Muslims. The advocacy of “Muslim over minority” model to extricate the doomed quota initiative from judicial veto comes as Congress continues to be embarrassed that the policy announced with fanfare in December 2011 became a non-starter.

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