Aligarh based intellectual body of Muslims, the Millat Bedari Muhim Committee [MBMC] Aligarh held a symposium on International Human Rights Day at Media Centre Aligarh to analyse the status of the minorities in India. Presiding over the symposium, Prof. Razaullah Khan, former Chairman Department of Civil Engineering, AMU said the Constitution of India has granted special rights to minorities and the government appointed the Sachar Committee to analyse real status of Muslims but failed in implementing its recommendations.
The editor of the Aligarh Movement magazine, Jasim Mohammad pointed out that the most important problem of minorities is their security. Citing the fake Ishrat Jahan encounter in Gujarat, he said that rising cases of fake encounters are a matter of concern not only for minorities but for every citizen of the country. He pointed out that for the last two decades justice delivery system for minorities has taken nose dive and they have been made to prove their patriotism. This state of affairs is not very positive for Indian democracy.
AMU Executive Council member, Dr. Mohammad Shahid said that the problems of unemployment among minorities should be addressed urgently as the status of human beings depends upon them. Senior columnist and critic N. Jamal Ansari said that the status of the minorities should be uplifted to strengthen the Indian nation. OSD Jamia Urdu Aligarh Farhat Ali Khan pointed out that if the Indian nation has to be on world stage, Indian minorities have to be placed on respected peddle.
A resolution adopted in the symposium demanded that the Central Government should pass a legislation to declare Aligarh Muslim University as a minority institution of national importance and implement the recommendations of the Sachar Committee immediately.