New Delhi: Seeking to revive the Mandal issue, former Prime Minister V P Singh on Saturday said Muslims should be accommodated in a sub-quota created within the 27 per cent quota earmarked in the Commission report.
"We are not demading a quota additional to the existing 27 per cent. We are seeking a sub-quota for Muslims," Singh told reporter in Delhi.
"No Constitutional amendment is required. It is simple to implement. Since it will not disturb the existing reservation ratio, even BJP would not have any objection to it," Singh said.
"We appeal to the Congress and Mulayam Singh government to implement it, instead of making distant promises to the people," he added.
According to him, Mandal Commission had already provided for the Muslims and 65 per cent of the Muslims, who had the same occupation as those of the scheduled castes, came in the preview of the commission.
Welcoming the Sachar committee report, the, Singh said report has only endorsed what he has been emphasising for the last 16 years.
Singh also demanded a CBI probe into Malegaon blasts and the killing of a woman in turmoils following defacing of a statue of B R Ambedkar in Kanpur.
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