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Muslims may get a piece of 27% OBC quota pie

-PTI
 
The government is considering giving reservation to backward Muslims within the 27 per cent quota fixed for Other Backward Classes and a decision in this regard will be taken soon, law minister Salman Khurshid said on Thursday. 

"Of the 27% OBC quota in jobs, the government is examining to fix a quota for backward Muslims," Salman Khurshid told reporters outside Parliament. 

Khurshid said the decision on fixing a quota for backward Muslims within the OBC quota would come before the Cabinet the "soonest", but refused to give a timeline for it. 

"We are working towards it, but I can't give a dateline or a deadline," he said noting that the issue has been on the government's agenda for the last two years and a decision on it is pending and has to be decided soon, he said. He said under the law all reservations can only be on the basis of OBCs. "Indira Sahni judgment is what we can go by in this regard," he said.