By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: After holding a massive protest on January 29 in New Delhi against witch hunting of the Muslim community and illegal arresting of Azamgarh Muslim youths, and demanding the Congress-led UPA government to stop the trend, the Uttar Pradesh Ulema Council will now put the same demand before the Uttar Pradesh government of Bahujan Samaj Party.
The Ulema Council has decided to take two trains to Lucknow on February 20 – one from Azamgarh and another from Jaunpur – to press the state government led by Mayawati which came to power with massive support of the Muslim community but did nothing to stop injustice to Muslims in the state.
Talking to TwoCircles.net, Dr Tasleem Rahmani, president of Muslim Political Council of India, who played key role in organizing the Delhi protest, the greatest on the Batla House encounter and its follow-ups, said two special trains will leave Azamgarh and Jaunpur on February 19 and will reach Lucknow on February 20. He said the protest is meant to press the state government to rein in the state police and ATS which have been falsely implicating Muslim youths from Azamgarh in terror cases.
On December 21 Talha Amir, son of Ulema Council leader Maualana Amir Rashadi, was picked from Nagpur and implicated in false cases, but the police could not prove the allegations and the court released the youth.
To empower the Muslim community, Dr Rahmani said, Ulema Council is thinking of fielding its candidates in the coming Lok Sabha elections in eastern Uttar Pradesh. The council has already decided to fight from Azamgarh and Lalganj seats.