BENGALURU: Student bodies got together on Wednesday and announced that will protest if the 2B reservation to OBC Muslims is not restored.
The organisations include All India Students Association (AISA), Ambedkar Students’ Association(ASA), Bangalore University Students’ Union Collective, Dalit Vidyarthi Parishad (DVP), Girls Islamic Organisation (GIO), Karnataka Vidyarthi Sangha(KVS, Parivarthana (the GKVK wing unit of ASA) and Students Islamic Organisation (SIO).
Representatives of a few of the organisations addressed the media on Wednesday.
“A lot of people argue that from 4% of reservations under 2B category, OBC Muslims have now got 10%. But there is no internal reservation and a lot of Muslim students will have to compete against upper caste communities in EWS. How can students from slums, poor background, studying in small schools compete with the forward caste students? We will no longer get the reservation for 1,700 seats for engineering courses and 300 seats for medical courses, eligible under the 2B reservation,” said Zeeshan Aqhil, state president of SIO.
The student leaders called out Union home minister Amit Shah for his statement that there was no provision in the Constitution to provide reservation on the basis of religion, and that the Congress had done it for polarisation, and the BJP scrapped it. They believed it was misinformation being spread among the citizens that the reservations to Muslims were based on their religion.
“In fact, in the post independence era, all the Karnataka’s backward classes commission, the R Nagana Gowda Commission, LG Havanuru commission, Venkataswamy commission and O Chinnappa Reddy Commission have, after considering various parameters, recommended that a majority of the Muslim community be provided reservation on the grounds of socio-economic and educational backwardness,” student leaders said.
They are set to go out on a protest, although the date is not set. They are even considering legal action through PIL, to revoke the scrapping of 2B reservation to OBC Muslim, said a student representative.
Aratrika, convening body member of AISA Karnataka said that the short term demand is to revoke the scrapping of 2b reservation of OBC Muslims, and the long term demand is to scrap NEP 2020. We need affirmative action to uplift the disadvantaged communities.
Meanwhile, Lokesh Ram, former president, BU PG researcher scholars association stated that the Muslim community is comfortable with 2B reservation. By competing with forward castes in EWS, the OBC Muslim community will be deprived of economic opportunities.
The organisations include All India Students Association (AISA), Ambedkar Students’ Association(ASA), Bangalore University Students’ Union Collective, Dalit Vidyarthi Parishad (DVP), Girls Islamic Organisation (GIO), Karnataka Vidyarthi Sangha(KVS, Parivarthana (the GKVK wing unit of ASA) and Students Islamic Organisation (SIO).
Representatives of a few of the organisations addressed the media on Wednesday.
“A lot of people argue that from 4% of reservations under 2B category, OBC Muslims have now got 10%. But there is no internal reservation and a lot of Muslim students will have to compete against upper caste communities in EWS. How can students from slums, poor background, studying in small schools compete with the forward caste students? We will no longer get the reservation for 1,700 seats for engineering courses and 300 seats for medical courses, eligible under the 2B reservation,” said Zeeshan Aqhil, state president of SIO.
The student leaders called out Union home minister Amit Shah for his statement that there was no provision in the Constitution to provide reservation on the basis of religion, and that the Congress had done it for polarisation, and the BJP scrapped it. They believed it was misinformation being spread among the citizens that the reservations to Muslims were based on their religion.
“In fact, in the post independence era, all the Karnataka’s backward classes commission, the R Nagana Gowda Commission, LG Havanuru commission, Venkataswamy commission and O Chinnappa Reddy Commission have, after considering various parameters, recommended that a majority of the Muslim community be provided reservation on the grounds of socio-economic and educational backwardness,” student leaders said.
They are set to go out on a protest, although the date is not set. They are even considering legal action through PIL, to revoke the scrapping of 2B reservation to OBC Muslim, said a student representative.
Aratrika, convening body member of AISA Karnataka said that the short term demand is to revoke the scrapping of 2b reservation of OBC Muslims, and the long term demand is to scrap NEP 2020. We need affirmative action to uplift the disadvantaged communities.
Meanwhile, Lokesh Ram, former president, BU PG researcher scholars association stated that the Muslim community is comfortable with 2B reservation. By competing with forward castes in EWS, the OBC Muslim community will be deprived of economic opportunities.
