Assam & Uttarakhand say states should decide; Gujarat, MP, Karnataka favour existing policy letting Centre decide
BJP-ruled Gujarat, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh have favoured the current system of identifying and notifying minorities at the national level —
which leaves out Hindus from the list of religious minorities —
while the party’s governments in Assam and Uttarakhand have opined that the unit of identification of minorities should be the state
as laid down by the Supreme Court in the 2002 landmark T M A Pai case.
