By TwoCircles.net news desk,
New Delhi: Popular Front of India general secretary E. M. Abdul Rahiman stated that Muslims in India could achieve political empowerment only through building up a nationwide political movement at the grass root level through planned and consistent efforts.
Addressing a press conference in Jaipur in connection with the campaigning of the National Political Conference to be convened by Popular Front on February 13, 2009 in Calicut, Kerala, he said: “There are no short cuts to gain due share in political power. If adequate representation and equity are the political rights due to Muslims, their experiment with elections during the past six decades proved that shifting support among different political parties and leaders in consecutive elections did not help them. Muslims must evolve an action agenda for consolidating into a political movement, as a few other marginalised communities like yadavs and chamars have illustrated in the recent years.”
He said that frequent announcements about new political formations from different Muslim circles on the eve of the elections are not new phenomena. It is just the repetition of the past. Some individuals and groups without any influence among the people even locally, engage in this exercise in order to bargain before Congress and other major parties with an eye on getting some berths in the allotment of seats in Lok Sabha election.
He made it clear that Popular Front is not taking part in this worthless exercise. The aim of Popular Front and the National Political Conference is to campaign for the emergence of a positive political movement at the national level which is capable of empowering Muslims and other down trodden communities, he added.