[3] Initially, the commission was entrusted with the following terms of reference:[1] After nearly five months of its work the Commission’s Terms of Reference were modified so as to add the following:[1] TwoCircles.net, an online Indian news organization has started publishing excerpts from this report since June 2009.
[6] Since the submission India's national party, BJP has been opposing the Ranganath Misra's recommendation fiercely.
In 2010, BJP's senior official and CM of Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chouhan stated "prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru had opposed reservation for converted SCs and STs".
[7] In 2011, The BJP decided to file a PIL against a report recommending Scheduled Caste quotas for all minorities that could lead to Dalit Christians and Muslims coming within its ambit.
[8] On 9 February 2014, Narendra Modi during his prime-ministerial campaign in Kerala he critisied Mishra's report for creating "insecurities of the Dalit communities".