Supreme Court Rejects BJP Leader Ashwini Upadhyay's PIL Seeking Guidelines Defining 'Minority' & For Declaring Hindus as Minority in 8 States
The plea had challenged the validity of the Centre's 26-year-old notification declaring five communities -- Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsis -- as minorities. It sought to declare as unconstitutional section 2 (c) of the National Commission for Minority (NCM) Act, 1992, under which the notification was issued on October 23, 1993.