Mumbai: Asif Shaikh Rasheed, the Congress MLA from Malegaon (Central) assembly constituency, Tuesday took the oath in the Urdu language whereas Imtiyaz Jaleel, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) MLA from Aurangabad (East) assembly seat, sworn in as legislator in the Marathi language.
[Some of the Muslim MLAs with Jamiat-e-Ulema Mumbai office bearers.]
Asif Shaikh began taking oath with Bismillah ir Rehman ir Raheem, with the name of Allah, the most merciful, read the entire text in Urdu, and ended with 'Jai Hind', 'Jai Maharashtra' and 'Khuda Hafiz'.
Waris Pathan, another MIM MLA who represents Byculla assembly seat in Mumbai, took the oath as legislator in Hindi. Like Asif Shaikh, Imtiyaz Jaleel and Waris Pathan both began taking oath with Bismillah ir Rehman ir Raheem.
Asif Shaikh, Imtiyaz Jaleel and Warsi Pathan - all the three Muslim MLAs have been elected to the Maharashtra's lower house for the first time.
Samajwadi Party MLA Abu Asim Azmi, another Muslim MLA, who reprsents Mankhurd (Mumbai) constituency, also took the oath in Hindi language - this time without any barrier.
In 2009 when Azmi was elected to the Maharashtra assembly for the first time, he was slapped by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) legislators for taking oath in the Hindi language.
After re-election, Azmi had said he would take oath in Hindi as the language is his mother tongue and he is more comfortable in it.
The Maharashtra assembly has a total of 09 Muslim MLAs - all belonging to the Congress, NCP, MIM and SP. Probably for the first time, no Muslim legislator is seen on the treasury benches.
Meanwhil, Jamiat-e-Ulema Mumbai felicitated Abu Asim Azmi, Amin Patel, Asif Shaikh, Imtiyaz Jaleel, Waris Pathan and Abdus Sattar at its Md Ali Road office.
The Jamiat had invited all the nine Muslim MLAs to its office for felicitation. However except the above, others including, Arif Naseem Khan, the most inefficient minister in the last government, did not turn up at the Jamiat office.
Comments
| Quick linksNews
National
International
Regional
Politics
Education & Career
Business
Science & Technology
Health
Views & Analysis
The Funny Side
© 2012 Awaz Multimedia & Publications. All rights reserved.
Maharashtra's Minority Affairs Minister faces ire of former ally for his plan to introduce Urdu as optional subject in Marathi medium schools
The Sena's 63 members trooped inside the Vidhan Bhavan with full throated vigour and slogans on the first the day of the three-day ..... More
Also Read: Eknath Khadse takes stock of Ministry of Minorities Development
The washing ritual begins with the performance of two raka'hs of Nafl prayer inside the Kaaba. The interior walls are then cleaned with rose, oud and musk perfumes using white colour of .... More
Ladies and Gentlemen, this man is sulking. Clearly. He didn't get the leftover crumbs from the BJP table. Hence all this hullabaloo. Throw some at him and he will be back to issuing his support for BJP under PM Modi in the next general elections .This Imam is craving for attention. Don't feed the..... More
In November 2013 while handing over the task of dumping the city wastes and garbage to a private contractor, Mayor Tahira Shaikh Rasheed had promised to convert Malegaon into Singapore. No litter will be seen anywhere from now on, and the city roads .... More