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Government report concedes Indias Muslims are a socially deprived, victimised minority

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Government report concedes Indias Muslims are a socially deprived, victimised minority

A report prepared by a seven-member committee headed by Justice Rajinder Sachar has conceded that Indias Muslim minority faces appalling socioeconomic deprivation and is the victim of official neglect and frequent police harassment and violence.

The committee, which was charged with investigating the socioeconomic status of Indias 150 million Muslims and recommending means of improving their lot, was appointed by United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in March 2005.

It has long been patently obvious that Indias Muslims are disproportionately represented among the poor and that they have been the target of official discrimination. From 1998 to 2004, Indias government was led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which openly espouses the Hindu-supremacist doctrine of Hindutva. In 2002, more than 2,000 Muslims were killed and tens of thousands more left homeless by an anti-Muslim pogrom in BJP-ruled Gujarat.

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