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Shabbir Ali awarded for 4% quota for Muslims in TS
The All India Muslim Education Society presented a prestigious award to Leader of Opposition in Telangana Legislative Council Mohammed Ali Shabbir for his role and contribution in getting four per cent reservation for Muslim community in the State. The award was presented to Shabbir Ali by former Governor Aziz Qureshi in the presence of several eminent personalities during National Education Conference held at Ravindra Bharathi here on Saturday.
Hyderabad: The All India Muslim Education Society presented a prestigious award to Leader of Opposition in Telangana Legislative Council Mohammed Ali Shabbir for his role and contribution in getting four per cent reservation for Muslim community in the State. The award was presented to Shabbir Ali by former Governor Aziz Qureshi in the presence of several eminent personalities during National Education Conference held at Ravindra Bharathi here on Saturday.
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The award has been instituted in memory of eminent educationist and Founder Chairman of Shadan Group of Institutions late Dr Vizarat Rasool Khan. Speaking on the occasion, Shabbir Ali recalled the entire journey for Muslim reservation. “I was denied admission in to the engineering stream despite getting 68 per cent marks in intermediate. My friend, who hailed from Backward Classes, got 61 per cent marks and got admission in an engineering college due to reservation.
This particular incident forced me take a resolve to get reservation benefit for Muslim community. Later, I joined the Congress party and chased my dream of reservation,” Shabbir Ali said. The Congress leader added the first efforts, at the official level, to get Muslim reservation were made in 1993 when he formed the country's first Minorities Welfare Department. A GO was also issued in 1994 during Chief Minister K Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy's regime providing reservation to Muslims in jobs and education along with a few other backward classes.
A BC Commission was also constituted to decide the quota. However, the Telugu Desam government gave six extensions to the Commission during its 10-year rule and did not seek a single page report. “Within 58 days of coming to power in 2004, the Congress government, led by Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy, gave five per cent reservation to the Muslim community. However, it was scrapped by the High Court on the grounds that reservation could not be given on the basis of religion.
Corrective measures were taken on immediate basis and a new BC commission was constituted which gave its report within six months. The quota was reduced from five per cent to four per cent by identifying 14 socially, economically and educationally backward castes that were classified as BC-E category,” he said.
