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Sachar report: A bid to divide the nation, claims BJP
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, November 30
The BJP’s today derided the Sachar Committee report saying it would only divide the nation and disturb social harmony without doing any good to the Muslim community. BJP parliamentary party spokesperson Sushma Swaraj said the “voluminous and laborious” report was an “effort made in the wrong direction with a pseudo vision full of biases and prejudices”.

“The status of the community, according to the report, is a sad reflection on the governance of the Congress and its allies in the country who ruled at the Centre for over 50 years and most of the states of the country,” she said. She said the Communists had been ruling West Bengal for around 30 years, the RJD ruled Bihar for 15 years and the Samajwadi Party had been in power in Uttar Pradesh for the past five years.

Taking exception to the committee’s point about low representation of Muslim in the Armed forces, she said the committee had glossed over the fact that the doors were open for any qualified Muslim to join the forces and there was no ban on that.

“However, the fact it conveniently forgot was that Muslims in the Indian Army were given an option to migrate to Pakistan at the time of Partition. And if the majority of them had walked out of the country, how could one expect parity,” she contended.

She said another “dangerous” recommendation of the committee was about separate nomination for Muslims because they could not get elected in the normal election process.