National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities, also called as Ranganath Misra Commission was constituted by Government of India on 29 October 2004 to look into various issues related to Linguistic and Religious minorities in India. It was chaired by former Chief Justice of India Justice Ranganath Misra. The commission submitted the report to the Government on 21 May 2007.
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Main Findings
Leaked
TwoCircles.net, an online Indian news organization has started publishing excerpts from this report since June 2009.
Fierce Opposition
Since the submission India's national party, BJP has been opposing the Ranganath Mishra's recommendation fiercely. In 2010, BJP's senior official and CM of Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chouhan stated "prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru had opposed reservation for converted SCs and STs". In 2011, The BJP decided to file a PIL against a report recommending Scheduled Caste quotas for all minorities that could lead to Dalit Christians and Muslims coming within its ambit. On February 9, 2014, Narendra Modi during his prime-ministeral campaign in Kerala he critisied Mishra's report for creating "insecurities of the Dalit communities".