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Hindus can get minority status in some states: Centre to SC

Hindus can get minority status in some states: Centre to SC: The Narendra Modi government has told the Supreme Court that states with a small number of Hindus or other communities can declare them a minority community within their own borders, allowing them to establish and administer their own institutions. It stated that states can declare a religious or linguistic group as a minority community within their borders, as Maharashtra did in the case of Jews in 2016. In 2017, Karnataka declared Urdu, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Marathi, Tulu, Lamani, Hindi      Read More