coimbatore the tamil nadu thowheed jamaath tntj staged a protest in front of hotel tamil nadu at gandhipuram in the city on tuesday demanding the state government increase the reservation quota for muslims to 7 percent from 35 percent in educational institutions they claimed that the tntj would support aiadmk in the coming lok shaba polls if the reservation is increased more than 23 crore muslims live in india but 15 crore muslims dont have an education muslims comprise 3 per cent of indian army and only 1 per cent of the tamil nadu police but 25 percent of muslim youths have been lodged at various prisons across the country on fake charges the muslim community has been boycotted by the ruling parties said r rahamatullah state general secretary tntj he also added that as per the justice ranganath misra commissioners recommendation the union government promised that ten percent of reservation quota would be allotted for muslims in educational institutions but this has not happened aiadmk chief j jayalalitha announced that if the party came to power she would increase the reservation quota to seven percent from 35 percent for muslims but she has not done this yet said rahamatullah we would support the aiadmk in coming lokshaba polls if the party would implement seven percent reservation quota for us said rahamatullah more than 10000 muslims including 4000 women gathered at the meeting