09-25-2006, 11:56 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Dump Cong, ally with Left: Jamat-e-Islami </b>
Pioneer.com
Omer Farooq | Hyderabad
<b>Has the Congress party's support base among Muslims started eroding in a significant way? Yes, if one goes by the hints dropped by a leading Muslim organisation, Jamat-e-Islami that it was in favour of a broader understanding between Muslims and the Left parties. </b>A top leader of the Jamat said the Congress-led Government at the Centre had failed in ensuring justice and security to the Muslim minority.
The UPA Government came under sharp attack at a seminar on 'Terrorism: Causes and cure' organised by Jamat in Hyderabad. Referring to Sonia Gandhi's admission that Muslims were subjected to harassments at the hands of police in Maharashtra, All India Secretary of Jamat Mujtaba Farooq wondered what she was doing to stop such harassment and ensure justice to the Muslim minority.
"The State is under the rule of Congress-led Government and not any other party," he said. He rued that the Congress Governments in different States had failed in checking the police atrocities and bias against Muslims.
He also referred to the incident of the Jamiatul Ulema's member of Rajya Mahmood Madni's arrest and his brother, a Minister in Uttaranchal's Congress Government getting beaten up by the police and said the sense of insecurity among Muslims had heightened in the country.
Referring to the blast in Malegaon, in which 40 persons were killed, he said the investigations should have focused on the links between this blast and the previous attacks on mosques in Prabhani and Jalna and a blast in Nanded but the Government and the media have completely ignored it.
<b>"When the Minority Affairs Minister AR Antulay tried to raise the issue of blast in Bajrang Dal activist's house, he was snubbed by the Prime Minister," </b>Mujtaba Farooq said, quoting media reports.
Expressing his disappointment with the Congress on various issues, Mujtaba Farooq said there was a need for Muslims coming closer to the Left in the country. <b>"Jamat's support to the Left Front in Kerala elections has already triggered off a debate in the country,"</b> he said.
He quoted a veteran communist leader as saying that only Left could fight the fascist forces in the country and only Muslims could face the US imperialism at the international level. "The Congress has always adopted a dual policy towards Muslims," he said.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Pioneer.com
Omer Farooq | Hyderabad
<b>Has the Congress party's support base among Muslims started eroding in a significant way? Yes, if one goes by the hints dropped by a leading Muslim organisation, Jamat-e-Islami that it was in favour of a broader understanding between Muslims and the Left parties. </b>A top leader of the Jamat said the Congress-led Government at the Centre had failed in ensuring justice and security to the Muslim minority.
The UPA Government came under sharp attack at a seminar on 'Terrorism: Causes and cure' organised by Jamat in Hyderabad. Referring to Sonia Gandhi's admission that Muslims were subjected to harassments at the hands of police in Maharashtra, All India Secretary of Jamat Mujtaba Farooq wondered what she was doing to stop such harassment and ensure justice to the Muslim minority.
"The State is under the rule of Congress-led Government and not any other party," he said. He rued that the Congress Governments in different States had failed in checking the police atrocities and bias against Muslims.
He also referred to the incident of the Jamiatul Ulema's member of Rajya Mahmood Madni's arrest and his brother, a Minister in Uttaranchal's Congress Government getting beaten up by the police and said the sense of insecurity among Muslims had heightened in the country.
Referring to the blast in Malegaon, in which 40 persons were killed, he said the investigations should have focused on the links between this blast and the previous attacks on mosques in Prabhani and Jalna and a blast in Nanded but the Government and the media have completely ignored it.
<b>"When the Minority Affairs Minister AR Antulay tried to raise the issue of blast in Bajrang Dal activist's house, he was snubbed by the Prime Minister," </b>Mujtaba Farooq said, quoting media reports.
Expressing his disappointment with the Congress on various issues, Mujtaba Farooq said there was a need for Muslims coming closer to the Left in the country. <b>"Jamat's support to the Left Front in Kerala elections has already triggered off a debate in the country,"</b> he said.
He quoted a veteran communist leader as saying that only Left could fight the fascist forces in the country and only Muslims could face the US imperialism at the international level. "The Congress has always adopted a dual policy towards Muslims," he said.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->