Adopted at the National Meeting of All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat
Date: 21st September, 2024
All India Muslim Majlis e Mushawarat (AIMMM) welcomes the announcement of the Tamil Nadu chief minister Mr. MK Stalin, on the floor of the assembly, for considering for reservation benefits to Schedule Caste members who converted to Islam after consultation with the legal luminaries. AIMMM also noted with satisfaction Mr. Stalin’s commitment emphasizing the government’s commitment for safeguarding the interests of all such backward social groups as paramount.
The announcement comes in continuation of a resolution passed in the State Assembly a year back urging the Central Government to bring amendments in the laws to pave the way for giving reservation to the ‘Adi Dravidians’ who have converted to Christianity.
The blocking of greater social inclusion and equality in the country by the central government has been resisted by several state governments who oppose the vision of social exclusion of the communities who have converted their faith.
Mushawarat is of the opinion that the equity can never be achieved with universal distribution of benefits of social justice without any prejudice and apartheid.
Indeed no one can deny that there is a new tussle between the votaries of social inclusiveness and those who vouch for exclusive Hindu society, pushing out the ‘others’ from the development paradigm in the country.
Mushawarat also welcomes the initiative and continuous campaign of Mr. MH Jawahirullah MLA and member of AIMMM for raising the issue of the equitable justice for the scheduled caste converts to Islam on whose demand the CM Stalin had assured about the issue in the assembly.
AIMMM hopes that the various other state governments will take the lead in extending affirmative actions for schedule caste converts to Christianity and Islam.
(Proposed by Mr. Navaid Hamid)