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The BJP’s recent claim that Muslims in large number are joining the party in the state and elsewhere in the country drew a sharp reaction from Jamaat-e-Islami Hind’s national president who said it needs to be looked into if they are doing so “willingly”.
Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umri, during a press conference on Thursday, said: “Muslims across the country might be joining the BJP but it also needed to be seen if they were joining willingly or are being coerced or enticed into doing so by promises of wealth and ranks in the party.”
Umri was also critical of the attempt by the political parties to “malign the entire Muslim community” in the light of the October blast in Burdwan. “They are trying to prove that all the madrasas were training grounds for terrorists. No Muslim supports those behind the blast. The administration must look into the incident, book offenders and punish them. No Muslim will protest against that,” he said.
The blast incident, which he termed an “opportunity for the political parties”, was being “used by the communal forces to politicise the issue and create a divide between the Hindus and the Muslims”.
Umri also pointed out that while Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself may not have been too vocal about it, leaders from his party’s lower ranks “have made it clear that Hindus would get priority over the Muslims”. “We are yet to see the kind of development that Modi had promised for all.”
While acknowledging that the Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal “has tried to do something for the minority members”, many of the government’s steps, he said, “only added up to being attempts to appease the minority community”.
“As opposed to the previous CPM government which hardly gave any recognition to madrasas, this one gave recognition, although unaided, to some. But, at the same time, steps like paying honorariums to imams or giving cycles and scholarships to Muslim girls while the Hindu girls of the same school are deprived will only increase the Hindu-Muslim divide,” Umri said.
Md Nooruddin, state president of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, said there were several irregularities at all the district minority departments.
When asked as to why no applications were submitted for recognition of madrasas, he said, “There is hardly anyone present at these offices. They are not government employees but have been hired on a contractual basis. Besides there is no system of returning a received copy to the applicant, So even if there had been applications, there is no way we can prove it,” he claimed.
- See more at: ‘Are Muslims joining BJP willingly or being coerced into, asks JIH chief | The Indian Express
Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umri, during a press conference on Thursday, said: “Muslims across the country might be joining the BJP but it also needed to be seen if they were joining willingly or are being coerced or enticed into doing so by promises of wealth and ranks in the party.”
Umri was also critical of the attempt by the political parties to “malign the entire Muslim community” in the light of the October blast in Burdwan. “They are trying to prove that all the madrasas were training grounds for terrorists. No Muslim supports those behind the blast. The administration must look into the incident, book offenders and punish them. No Muslim will protest against that,” he said.
The blast incident, which he termed an “opportunity for the political parties”, was being “used by the communal forces to politicise the issue and create a divide between the Hindus and the Muslims”.
Umri also pointed out that while Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself may not have been too vocal about it, leaders from his party’s lower ranks “have made it clear that Hindus would get priority over the Muslims”. “We are yet to see the kind of development that Modi had promised for all.”
While acknowledging that the Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal “has tried to do something for the minority members”, many of the government’s steps, he said, “only added up to being attempts to appease the minority community”.
“As opposed to the previous CPM government which hardly gave any recognition to madrasas, this one gave recognition, although unaided, to some. But, at the same time, steps like paying honorariums to imams or giving cycles and scholarships to Muslim girls while the Hindu girls of the same school are deprived will only increase the Hindu-Muslim divide,” Umri said.
Md Nooruddin, state president of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, said there were several irregularities at all the district minority departments.
When asked as to why no applications were submitted for recognition of madrasas, he said, “There is hardly anyone present at these offices. They are not government employees but have been hired on a contractual basis. Besides there is no system of returning a received copy to the applicant, So even if there had been applications, there is no way we can prove it,” he claimed.
- See more at: ‘Are Muslims joining BJP willingly or being coerced into, asks JIH chief | The Indian Express
That should clear things up.
