Majority among the Minorities & factors responsible for underdevelopment

It is also a subject of study honestly the factors responsible for the lowest development of Muslim community comparatively, the majority community among the minorities.{The govt. should form the policies on the basis of the findings of the academic exercise. Sad, this community has been used for political benefit i. e. as a vote bank only and up to certain extent the leaders of this community are more responsible.}

Minority Card

The sound of the word ‘Democracy’ gives us pleasant feelings as it reflects to our fundamental rights and justice. No doubt the Democracy in India is very impressive example for the world. However the biggest demerit is that some of the laws and the policies that the government promises time to time do not get either implemented/ or not implemented properly. There is no basic defect/s in the policies. The reason of not getting the policies implemented properly is the vested interest of the compact triangle of Politician –Business Houses-Beauracracy. Some time the policies are implemented for a section of a segment of society from where the politician get support and rest of the segment remains neglected. One of such example is minority community. In real sense there are only two categories, in which the people are divided at any level, and these are rich and poor/ deprived class irrespective of religion, caste-tribe, minority/majority. The common concept of minority resembles to Muslims and every political party is in the habit of searching for the moment to get the favour of this segment of the minorities. However Muslims are in majority among the so-called minorities in India. No political party seems to have interest in seeking support of ‘Parsis’, they do not talk about them. The Parsis community is in minority in real sense as their population is in thousands only and their growth rate is diminishing. But no body wants to give attention on them, as voters are less in number and on the other hand the Muslim community has an effective role at the time of any political election, have attention in Political Parties. Samajwadi Party is stick to include reservation of Muslim women in the Reservation quota of Women’ Bill but they do not talk about the rest of the segment of the minorities. Lok Janshaki Party is also calculating Muslim as the nucleolus for rotating the Election electron around the Political Orbit.

The purpose of this is to suggest that a Government should give attention on the development of the weaker section/deprived class, irrespective of the so-called measurement by the term used based on religion, caste or strength of population of a community. This will certainly bring harmony in our multi-religious society. Fighting takes place by uneven distribution of opportunities/bias attitude among the different segments of the society. The population of Parsis is diminishing, so, the attention should be given on this aspect and the strict measures should be adopted where fertility rate is high to control the aggregate population growth of India. The numbers of all communities can never be equal. So, it is the time to redefine the terminology of minorities with respect to main principle equality and justice for all. A comparative study should also be done about the level of development among the different communities of the minorities and certain guidelines may be laid down for the development of the majority among the minorities.

                                                                             Vijay Nath Sondhi

                                                                                   23.08.2005