Alleviate sufferings of Muslims, says JamaathTamil Nadu Thouheed Jamaath (TNTJ) has planned to stage a series of massive protests against the Congress if the national party-led United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre failed to implement recommendations of Rajindra Sachchar and Ranganath Misra Committees that advocated a range of measures, including reservation for the uplift of Muslims in the country. Announcing this here on Sunday, its State president P. Zainul Abideen, while participating in the party's 13th State general council meeting, said that the Congress-led government was cheating the Muslims by indefinitely shelving the recommendations of the committees that suggested to the Centre to ensure reservation for Muslims in education and employment. Since several crores of Muslims were battling with abject poverty, the proposed reservation in education and employment alone would uplift this minority community. Similarly, the State government, in a bid to fulfil Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's poll promise of increasing the 3.50 per cent reservation for Muslims, should revise it to seven per cent while the Central government should give 15 per cent reservation. Pressing these demands, demonstrations would be staged in all district headquarters on February 14. While urging the Central government to take steps to expedite the case on Babri Masjid demolition, the Jamaath warned it against allowing foreign direct investment in the retail sector in the future also. Demanding the dissolution of Wakf Board, it said that the Muslim community, like the Christians, should be allowed to administer its properties so that holdings worth crores of rupees could be protected from being swindled. The meeting criticised Ms. Jayalalithaa for having sent her representative to convey her wishes to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his communal harmony fast and for lauding senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani's recent nationwide yatra. Chairman of TNTJ's administrative committee M. Shamsul Luha Rahmani presided over the meeting in which office-bearers from across the State participated. |
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