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Muslim ire puts Congress in fix

Muslim ire puts Congress in fix

Author: Pioneer News Service
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: September 27, 2008

UPA may go in for action against Hindu outfits to prove its 'secular credentials'

As major Muslim outfits turn the heat on the Congress for police action against the Delhi blasts accused, a jittery UPA is bending over backwards to convince them of its "secular" credentials.

On a day when nine Muslim organisations held a protest in the Capital and slammed the Congress for victimising the 'innocent' Muslims, two Union Ministers made statements that were music to their ears.

While Union HRD Minister Arjun Singh backed Jamia Millia Islamia's decision to fund legal aid to its students accused of bomb blasts, his Cabinet colleague Ram Vilas Paswan revealed the Cabinet is actively considering a ban on Bajrang Dal.

With the poll season fast approaching, the 'Muslim' factor is expected to weigh heavily on the mind of the UPA decision-makers and some crackdown on the Hindu outfits seems inevitable.

Ever since the police crackdown on Delhi blast suspect, pressure from the Muslim bodies on the Government has been unrelenting. On Friday, as many as nine Muslim bodies came under the umbrella of the Coordination Committee of Indian Muslims and attacked the Congress for carrying out a "political agenda to victimise every Muslim citizen for the Delhi serial blasts."

"Innocent Muslims are being captured, this will not be tolerated. The real terrorists are not Atif, Sajid or Basheer but the Indian Government and Home Minister Shivraj Patil," said Shahi Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid Syed Ahmed Bukhari.

He demanded a probe in Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma's death in the alleged encounter and said, "It is possible that the bullets that hit Sharma were actually shot by the police and not by the men in the house."

Representatives from Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind, Jamiat-e-Islami, All India Milli Council, All India Majelish Mushawarat, Jamia Nagar Coordination Committee, All India Muslim Rabita Council (Coordination), Peace Party of India, National Lok-Tantrik and several other Muslim organisations condemned the Congress-led UPA Government for toeing an anti-Muslim line to spoil the image of the community.

Speaking to The Pioneer, general secretary of All India Muslim Rabita (Coordination), Abdul Rehman Abid said: "We are worried about this Government agenda which has lost its secular credentials and become very much like the BJP, we do not see any difference between the BJP-led NDA and the Congress-led UPA."

In a bid to make peace with the Muslim leadership, Arjun Singh went to the extent of describing Jamia VC's stand to provide legal aid as a "step in national interest".

"There is nothing wrong in providing legal aid. In this case, I have got the full details. I understand whatever Mushirul Hasan told me in this context, and his decision is right," Singh told mediapersons.

Meanwhile, the BJP demanded dismissal of the Vice-Chancellor and termed the decision as 'atrocious, anti-national and highly objectionable'.

Paswan also backed the Jamia decision saying, "The society should introspect on the increasing alienation of Muslims. No Muslim had betrayed India in the three wars against Pakistan, yet today they are being made suspect."

While Singh was backing the Jamia's move to aid the terror suspects, Paswan was telling the media of the Government move to ban the Bajrang Dal.

Condemning Bajrang Dal's alleged role in attack on churches in Orissa and Karnataka, he said, "I raised the issue forcefully in the last Cabinet meeting and was told that there were certain procedures before an organisation was banned. The move is under consideraiton," he said.


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