By Najiya O., TwoCircles.net,
Kochi: The newly-elected leaders of Solidarity Youth Movement have urged Muslim leaders to bring up Muslims issues as social issues, rather than communal. South India’s leading youth group leaders have also called for unity among Muslim leaders.
Talking to TwoCircles.net, Solidarity Youth Movement president P. Mujeeb Rahman said that all Muslim leaders of the country should unite to bring up issues related to Muslims as social issues, rather than communal. “Muslims should unite. They should come to the forefront, and not stay aside as a separate community. For this, providing good education is very important,”
he said.
P. Mujeeb Rahman, SYM State President, hands over the food items collected by SYM to Laha Gopalan, the leader of the Chengara Struggle
P. Mujeeb Rahman has been re-elected the State President of the Solidarity Youth Movement. M. Sajid is the General Secretary. K.A. Shafeeq is the new Vice-President, and P.I. Noushad and N.K. Abdussalam are the State Secretaries.
Mujeeb Rahman also talked about the achievements of the ‘Solidarity’ in the past years, and shared his plans for the future of the organization. “Solidarity has worked and will continue to work for the landless and those deprived of their rights, whom the mainstream political parties have left out in the dark,” Mujeeb Rahman said. “Since its formation, the organization has followed a policy of carrying out struggle and service together. It has always been with the struggling people to achieve justice. Six years since formation, it is now a common platform where people of all religions and castes come and join. The organization will continue to work for the landless Adivasis and Dalits, as well as the people of the coastal areas who are very backward in education. The organization will take up their issues seriously, especially since even the left parties do not pay much heed to them in the present circumstances.”
But he expressed his concern that the mainstream media was not giving much coverage to the activities of the Solidarity. “Recently, the organization carried out relief activities worth Rs. 50 lakh in the endosulphan-hit areas of the northern district of Kasargode. But the media did not give ample coverage to any of these. So, the Solidarity has not been very successful in bringing all its activities to the notice of the public,” he said.
This is the second term of P. Mujeeb Rahman as the State President of the Solidarity. He has earlier served as the General Secretary of the organization.
The Solidarity Youth Movement is a youth organization of the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Kerala chapter. It was formed in 2003.