Author: Mumtaz Alam Falahi
Publication: TwoCircles.net
Date: April 22, 2009
URL: http://www.twocircles.net/2009apr22/pseudo_secular_parties_maligning_muslim_leaders_parties_dr_ayub.html
Dr Ayub, president, Peace Party, a UP-based
Muslim political party, has refuted the allegations made in some news reports
that he and his party are being backed by BJP to divide Muslim votes in Uttar
Pradesh so that the Congress could be checked.
The allegations are part of propaganda by
pseudo-secular parties like Congress, BSP and SP to malign Muslim leaders
and their parties, Dr Ayub told TwoCircles.net adding that these parties are
doing so because they are afraid of the awakening of the Muslim community.
"Muslims have become aware. These pseudo-secular
parties are afraid of their awakening. So, they want to divide them and malign
Muslim political parties in their eye," he said. "I do not find
any difference between BJP and pseudo-secular parties," he added.
He refuted the charge that he had met L K
Advani. "I have never met him. All the allegations in news reports are
just rubbish. We are considering legal actions against some newspapers which
have made such baseless allegations," Dr Ayub said.
Recently some news reports published in the
print media said some Muslim political leaders and strong candidates of Muslim
political parties are being backed by BJP in Muslim-dominated Lok Sabha seats
in UP. The reports said the BJP wants to check Congress in the state. The
reports also said that SP was also thinking on BJP line.
Some reports quoting unknown sources had claimed
that some Muslim leaders had met Advani at his residence in Delhi some time
back and there the strategy was chalked out. According to the strategy, the
BJP agreed to support candidates of Peace Party in 20 Muslim-dominated districts
like Dumariyaganj, Kaiserganj, Gonda, Shrawasti, Bharaich, Barabanki, Moradabad,
Muzaffarnagar and Saharanpur, the reports claimed.
