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SP campaigns to echo AIMPLB agenda
June 16, 2011 12:45:27 PM
Pioneer News Service | Lucknow
The agenda of All-India Muslim Personal Law Board will now echo in the Samajwadi Party campaigns.
With an eye on the Muslim vote bank, Mulayam Singh Yadav's party has readily agreed to support most of the demands of the AIMPLB.
This transformation has come after AIMPLB member Kamal Farooqui joined the SP during its Agra convention on June 8. Farooqui, who had close links with Congress, is also associated with several eminent Muslim organisations including All-India Milli Council (AIMC). His association with Congress reaped benefits for the party and it rewarded him with the post of Chairman of Delhi Minorities Commission.
"SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav has agreed to raise the issue of reservations for Muslims, waqf bill and the minority character of Aligarh Muslim University at national level.
His support will give the much needed force to these demands. I too joined the party after his assurance," Farooqui said at a press conference on Saturday. He also said that the SP was always pro-AIMPLB and now after his formal joining the party, he wold be in a better position to drive his point.
Responding to a querry, Farooqui termed the emergence of various Muslim political outfits as a dangerous sign for the community in the state.
"The demographic characteristic of UP is different from other states like Assam and Kerela. Here Muslims are scattered and any religion-based political outfit will cause polarisation of votes. Muslims should understand this and join the mainstream politics," he said.
Farooqui even claimed that he was having parleys with Dr Ayub of Peace Party, representatives of Ulema Council and had recently launched Welfare Party of India (WPI) for striking truce for a unified front led by SP.
"It is too premature to comment but I am trying my best," he added.
LUCKNOW | Sunday, June 12, 2011 | Email | Print |
| Back SP campaigns to echo AIMPLB agenda
June 16, 2011 12:45:27 PM
Pioneer News Service | Lucknow
The agenda of All-India Muslim Personal Law Board will now echo in the Samajwadi Party campaigns.
With an eye on the Muslim vote bank, Mulayam Singh Yadav's party has readily agreed to support most of the demands of the AIMPLB.
This transformation has come after AIMPLB member Kamal Farooqui joined the SP during its Agra convention on June 8. Farooqui, who had close links with Congress, is also associated with several eminent Muslim organisations including All-India Milli Council (AIMC). His association with Congress reaped benefits for the party and it rewarded him with the post of Chairman of Delhi Minorities Commission.
"SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav has agreed to raise the issue of reservations for Muslims, waqf bill and the minority character of Aligarh Muslim University at national level.
His support will give the much needed force to these demands. I too joined the party after his assurance," Farooqui said at a press conference on Saturday. He also said that the SP was always pro-AIMPLB and now after his formal joining the party, he wold be in a better position to drive his point.
Responding to a querry, Farooqui termed the emergence of various Muslim political outfits as a dangerous sign for the community in the state.
"The demographic characteristic of UP is different from other states like Assam and Kerela. Here Muslims are scattered and any religion-based political outfit will cause polarisation of votes. Muslims should understand this and join the mainstream politics," he said.
Farooqui even claimed that he was having parleys with Dr Ayub of Peace Party, representatives of Ulema Council and had recently launched Welfare Party of India (WPI) for striking truce for a unified front led by SP.
"It is too premature to comment but I am trying my best," he added.
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