NEW DELHI: OBC Muslim groups have now pressed for caste based census in the country which has been a major demand of political parties across the board from NDA allies to the UPA.
National Momin Conference which is a Muslim OBC body, on Wednesday demanded from the Prime Minister that if it is not done now, the OBC community will have to wait for another ten years.
Shakiluzzaman Ansari, president of the body said, “the Prime Minister himself calls that he is from the OBC community and he knows the problems of the community as well. We hope that Prime Minister will accept the demand of the community.”
Ansari who was the member of National Backward Commission, said, “The country should know what is the population of the OBC and what is their social status so that welfare schemes could be diverted towards that particular community.”
The National Momin Conference has passed a resolution on the issue and will be writing to Prime Minister. Not only this, another body, the All-India Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz, which has been carrying out a campaign for reservation to the backward Muslim communities, has demanded that a caste based census of the minority community also be conducted.
A meeting of 17 Muslim organisations was recently held to chalk out further action plan.
Mahaz President Ali Anwar Ansari has said the caste census should not be restricted to the Hindu community but should be extended to the minority community as well, since Muslims also follow the caste system.
On August 23, BJP ally and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar along with a 10-member all-party delegation from the state, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi to press for a caste-based census.
In 2011, Socio Economic and Caste Census conducted by the Registrar General of India had come out with 46,73,034 categories of caste, sub-caste, but in July 2015, the Government of India stated that errors were found and some of them have been rectified since then.
The first caste census was conducted in India in 1881 after Britishers took over and the last census based on caste was carried out in 1931. — IANS
We are Muslims. Arguments like these suggest that there is casteism in Islam which is actually false. All of us are from general category and stick to it.
There exist tribes among Arab Muslims ; and their exist Castes ( called Biradari in Urdu and Jaat/ Jati in Hindi ) among lndian sub-continent/ South Asian Muslims. More than 95 % lndian sub-continent Muslims are converted from non-muslims/ non-Abrahamic faiths and mostly from pagan Shudra Hindus in lndia , also pagan Buddhists especially Pathans /Afghans and from Parsi lrani . 70 % Muslim population of the World is non-Arab and 30 % Muslim population is Arab Muslims ( whose ancestors were among Pagan Arabs of Mecca , Jews of Yathrib ( Madina ) and also Arab Christians . Upper castes ( Ashaaraf , like Dwij among Hindus ) among Muslims are Sayyad , Sheikh , Mughal , Pathan and converted to lslam from upper caste Dwij-Hindus . Ajlaaf ( Backwards / OBC s , like Shudra among Hindus ) are Muslims OBCs like Julaha ( Ansari, Momin-Ansaar ) , Teli ( Muslim-Malik , Roghan’gar , Saamaani ), Dhunia ( Mansoori ) , Hajjam /Hajjaam (Salmani ) , Darji ( ldrisi ) , Faqir / Fakeer ( Alvi ) , Badhai / Luhaar ( Saifi ) , all Muslim OBCs converted from non-muslim OBCs . Arzaal ( Dalit-Muslims , like SCs ) among Muslims are Muslim-Bhangi ( Halalkhor , Lal Begi , Muslim-Sweeper ) , Muslim-Mochi ( Muslim-Charmkaar , Rahmaani ) , Muslim-Dhobi ( Hawaari ) , Muslim-Khateek ( Kasai , Kassaab ) , Muslim-Baajigar , Muslim-Madaari , Muslim-Naalband , Musli-Sapera , Muslim-Nat , Muslim-Dom , all Muslim-dalits converted from non-Muslim SCs . Muslim-STs ( Muslim-tribals , Muslim-Kabayal / Kanayali ) are Muslim Van-gujjar , Muslim Bakarwal , Tadvi-Bhil / Tadvi-Bheel , Muslim-Gond / Muslim-Gondraaj , all domicile Muslim population of Laccadive/ Lakshadweep islands , all tribal converts to lslam from aboriginal tribal communities.
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Hey, no Muslims should get reservations.
They are not bound by caste, creed but by the ” brotherhood” of Islam. So, any and all requirements of them can be met by the Ummah as well.
They would be terrible by benefiting from the policies of a kaffir government. So, they should boycott the RSS-BJP kaffir govt and all its policies, even if it benefits them.