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[ZESTCaste] No SC tag for dalit Christians, Muslims?

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/No-SC-tag-for-dalit-Christians-Muslims/articleshow/7723522.cms

No SC tag for SC/ST Christians, Muslims?

Subodh Ghildiyal, TNN | Mar 17, 2011, 01.40am IST

NEW DELHI: The Centre seems tilted against the inclusion of “SC/ST”

Christians and Muslims in the Scheduled Castes list, arguing the need

for evidence to show that converts continued to face discrimination of

the same degree as before their exit from the Hindu fold.

The Union law ministry has cited a Supreme Court judgment dismissing

the claim that the constitutional provision limiting the SC tag to

Hindus/Sikhs was discriminatory. The UPA is learnt to favour status

quo on the back of law ministry’s view coupled with the opinion of the

National Commission for SCs — that the touchstone of being a SC/ST was

if converts followed traditions and customs as before conversion and

suffered the same social disabilities.

The contentious issue is before the apex court and the Centre has

marshalled opinion from its key arms to finalize its stand. A senior

minister who was part of recent discussion in the Cabinet Committee on

Political Affairs, suggested caution, telling TOI: “The Constitution

cannot be tinkered with in a casual manner.”

The issue is politically sensitive. SC/STs, as articulated by NCSC,

have opposed stretching the frontiers of SC list to outside Hindu,

Sikh and Buddhist fold, arguing that the fresh addition would encroach

on their share of 15% job quota.

The law ministry has added a strong caveat for continuing with the

existing regime by quoting a 1985 SC ruling that quashed a claim that

the ‘constitutional order 1950, para 3′ discriminated against

Christians.

The Soosai vs UOI, 1985, ruling said the President of India had based

his judgment on the definition of SCs on the material showing that

Hindus/Sikhs “suffered from economic and social disabilities and

cultural and educational backwardness so gross in character…”

The apex court said, “to prove the said clause as discriminatory in

nature, it must be shown that they (converts) suffer from comparable

depth of social and economic disabilities and cultural backwardness

and similar level of degradation within the Christian community…”

The court noted that merely showing continuance of caste after

conversion was not sufficient. “It is necessary to establish further

that the disabilities and handicaps suffered from such caste

membership in Hinduism continue in their oppressive severity in the

new environment of a different religious community,” it said.

The law ministry told the Centre that the spirit of the apex court

order had to be taken into account while deciding the issue. The NCSC

said it had not conducted any study to establish the truth either way.

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