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We need action to empower Muslims, not
promises: Arshad Madani
Sunday February 24, 2013 10:17:33 AM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Top Muslims
leaders and clerics Saturday warned secular
parties not to use the Muslim community as their "vote bank" only
but sincerely work for
their socio-economic uplift and political empowernment.
"We need action, not tall promises" to empower Muslims by giving
them reservation
in legislatures, parliament and government jobs and ensuring justice for innocent
Muslim youth, languishing in jails without trial for years,"
Maulana Arshad Madani, president
of the Jamiat-Ulema Hind, said at a gathering of over 10,000
Islamic clerics who had gathered
at Talkotra Indoor Stadium to voice concern over growing
communalism and denial of rights to Muslims..
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav was among those in the audience who raptly listened to Maulana Arshad Madani's comments on "Muslim vore bank".
Jamiat Ahle Hadees chief Maulana Asghar Ali
Imam Mehdi and Jamat Islami leader Maulana Intizar Naim were among
those endorsed the Jamiat chief's views.
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and Health and Family
Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad were also invited to the
conference but did not show up.
Maulana Madni said that for decades Muslims had remained socially, economically and educationally backward due to "evil intention of
the ruling class and biased bureaucracy".
Secular parties have made only empty promises, but did nothing in
the past six decades to redress
genuine grievances of Muslims. Many commissions and committees
were set up to suggest measures for removal of backwardness of
Muslims, but these recommendation never get implemented.
"I fail to understand why Muslims are denied reservation when
other socially and economically backward communities were granted
this benefit," he stated.
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