Ultra ‘Secularism’ in Uttar Pradesh

[Mariyam]

You don't see the difference between a government promoting minorities for the purpose of getting votes and a local community enforcing some rules in their apartment complex' date=' then you are arguing just for the sake of arguing. Every condo board comes up with their own set of rules like no pets, no non-veg cooking, no-skate boarding etc. They have rights whatever it might be to enforce them. Equating that to the government pro-minority appeasement policies is stupidity.[/quote'] I agree with the gist of your message. But where has the government 'promoted' minorities? They've 'promoted' some half crazy fatwebaaz cleric. The two aren't the same.

[someone]

Who is a minority? In the 2002 judgment, in T.M.A. Pai Foundation & Others vs. the State of Karnataka and Ors, the Supreme Court deliberated on the various contentions that the Centre, State, or a particular region within a State may be considered as the basic unit for protection of the right of minorities to set up minority educational institutions, and whether a minority in a State would lose its minority status if within a particular region of the State it happened to be in a majority. The Court has set out the principle that minority status should be determined in relation to the population of the State and not to India as a whole. It ruled that as the reorganisation of the States in India had been effected on linguistic lines, for the purpose of determining a minority, the unit would be the State and not the whole of India. Thus, religious and linguistic minorities, who have been placed on a par in Article 30, have to be considered in terms of the State concerned. Not surprisingly, this issue surfaced again in Bal Patil (2004) and Srivastava (2007); these two judgments have further complicated the question of definition of minorities, as both these judgments relate, for the most part, to definitional issues. Bal Patil questioned the identity of Sikhs as a religious minority while Srivastava ruled that Muslims, by virtue of their numbers, cannot be considered a minority in Uttar Pradesh. http://www.hindu.com/2007/07/14/stories/2007071461651500.htm Last point is interesting, Muslims in UP cannot be minorities and maybe, it's also time for Hindus minorities to get some rights?