Re: Indian Muslims are the most disadvantage group in India
Nauman72, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is India’s third muslim President. I agree that he is powerless in day-to-day affairs, but he is the supreme commander of the armed forces, he can dissolve state assemblies and enforce President’s rule there, he takes charge in emergencies and he can send a bill back to the Parliament (although once) if he disapproves.
But in bureaucracy (or beuraucrazy) and in Police, IPS and Army, there are very few Muslims.
In the Central govt. India’s water resources minister is a Muslim (Saifuddin Soz) and the secretary of foreign affairs is E. Ahmed. But believe me there are scores of Muslim Members of Legislative Assembly (MLA) of the UP, Bihar, MP and Chhatisgargh state Governments besides of course Jammu & Kashmir. There are and have been some Muslim governors of state also.
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I disagree that Pakistan is secular, because non-Muslims aren’t allowed to occupy the posts of President and maybe PM and other high posts. Muslims wanting to convert out of Islam are sentenced to death, whereas there is no such law in India.
Hindus in Pakistan are governed by Islamic laws of Pakistani constitution, whereas Muslims in India have their own Law Board.
This in no way means that what happened in Gujarat 2002 is like OK. It was India’s blackest blot. The BJP got a fitting reply when they were thrown out of power in the next central elections because the people understood that the reigns of power cannot go to a Ku Klux Klan party.