Muslim groups see 'minorities' quota as a googly

The Union government's much-anticipated quota-within-quota sop for minorities as a whole has left Muslim groups confused and groping for answers. On Thursday, the Union Cabinet marked off 4.5 percentage points from within the 27 per cent OBC Central quota, allocating the share to religious minorities, among them Muslims, Sikhs, Christians and Jains. (In the 2001 Census, not counting Jammu and Kashmir, the proportion of these groups to the total population was as follows: Muslims 12.4 per cent; Christians 2.3 per cent, Sikhs 1.9 per cent,; Buddhists 0.8 per cent and Jains 0.4 per cent).

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