new delhi in a big setback to hrd minister arjun singh the cabinet secretariat has allotted all matters related to minority education to the newly created ministry of minority affairs under a r antulaycall it a strange twist but hrd ministry currently contemplating legal recourse to restore the minority status of aligarh muslim university might lose its hold over the prestigious university if the supreme court gives it a minority statusthe new rules of business that came into effect on tuesday say that the ministry of minority affairs would look after socioeconomic cultural and educational matters pertaining to minorities including issues related to minority education institutions and organisations including the maulana azad education foundationtechnically it is not a loss for singh since minority education was never listed as a separate category for hrd in the business allocation rules but the hrd ministry as the sole purveyor of education was also looking after minority educationnow that a specific category of minority education has been created and given to antulay this is sure to cause heartburn especially since singh has been at the forefront of piloting major educational schemes for minoritiesapart from the possiblewrangling over amu in future the immediate question is that who antulay or singh would pilot the national commission for minority educational institutions amendment bill