Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday called for an all-party virtual meeting on Friday to discuss ‘scholarship for minorities’.
This decision was in the wake of Kerala High Court issuing a verdict on the issue of minority scholarship.
On May 28, a division bench, headed by Chief Justice S Manikumar cancelled a 2015 state government order under which 80 per cent of the merit-cum-means scholarships went to the Muslim community and 20 per cent to the Christian community including Latin Catholic and converted Christians.
The HC issued the order on a public interest litigation, directing that the scholarships should be distributed on the basis of the population of both the communities.
