Caught between quota and sub-quota

Reservation for Muslims in jobs and education — feverishly anticipated over the past two years and expected to be announced ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections — might turn out to be a headache the Congress unthinkingly bought itself. As Muslim groups have been arguing, the route under the United Progressive Alliance government's consideration — a 6 per cent Muslim sub-quota within the 27 per cent OBC quota — would pit the more numerous Hindu OBCs against Muslims, while at the same time alienating powerful Muslim groups demanding an independent 10 per cent central quota for the community.

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