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SP chief Abu Azmi threatens to protest if the Maha authorities would not deliver a regulation for Muslim reservation

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Samajwadi Party chief and MLA Abu Azmi has demanded the Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities to deliver a decision towards CAA-NRC within the ongoing meeting session and has additionally requested the federal government to deliver a regulation to offer 5% reservations to Muslims within the state.
Speaking to the media, Abu Azmi, who can be a companion within the Maha Vikas Aghadi coalition, demanded the Uddhav Thackeray-led authorities to usher in laws to offer 5 per cent reservations to Muslims within the state. The controversial Samajwadi Party chief warned of taking to streets towards the state authorities in the event that they fail to do it.
Abu Azmi, chief of Maha Vikas Aghadi’s companion Samajwadi Party, asks state govt to deliver decision towards CAA-NRC in ongoing meeting session, additionally calls for that regulation on 5% Muslim reservation ought to be handed. He says he’ll take to streets towards state govt if it fails to do it pic.twitter.com/rZ0IMlWQOM— ANI (@ANI) March 1, 2021
Abu Azmi additionally mentioned that the Shiv Sena-Congress-NCP lead coalition ought to go a decision towards the Citizenship Amendment Act that gives citizenship to persecuted minorities from the three neighbouring Islamic international locations.
Recently, the Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities in Maharashtra had proposed extending the contentious 5 per cent reservations for Muslims throughout instructional institutes within the state. Informing concerning the authorities proposal to offer reservations to Muslims in instructional institutes, Minority Affairs minister Nawab Malik mentioned that the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities would quickly herald an ordinance to this impact within the ongoing Budget session.
Speaking on the identical, Samajwadi Party’s Abu Azmi had earlier lauded the Maharashtra Government, stating that this transfer wouldn’t solely profit the Muslims however the nation as an entire.
“Today, people say that Muslims are backward, the truth is that education has become so expensive. This reservation will prove as a great benefit for the Muslims who could not afford education,” mentioned Abu Azmi. 
MVA alliance’s persistent push for Muslim reservations
Ever since Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance shaped a authorities in Maharashtra, the alliance companions have been urgent to usher in reservations for Muslims within the state. In January 2020, a month after Uddhav Thackeray turned the chief minister, a number of stories surfaced stating that Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities is making ready to introduce reservations for Muslims within the state.
It is pertinent to notice that the Shiv Sena was earlier amongst the political events who had vehemently opposed the reservations based mostly on faith in Maharashtra however owing to the altering political dynamic, it seems to have acquiesced to the NCP-Congress demand of passing reservations for Muslims in schooling.