Jammu and Kashmir is the lone Muslim-majority state in India. According to the 2011 Census, Hindus account for 28.43% of the state’s population at 3.56 million. Jammu and Kashmir does not acknowledge Hindus as a “minority” in the state as it goes by the Centre’s national list of minorities, according to an affidavit filed by the PDP-BJP coalition government in the Supreme Court last week. The state government told the top court that benefits of Central schemes would only be extended to “meritorious” and “needy” members of those communities that…
Read MoreHindus not a minority in JK, welfare schemes only for ‘Needy’: State govt to SC
