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New Delhi: Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind (JUH) organized an inauguration programme for reopening 97 shops in Delhi’s Gokalpuri Tyre market on Friday.
Maulana Mahmood Madani, the General Secretary of JUH addressed the event through video conferencing, in presence of East Delhi’s District Magistrate Shashi Kaushal, Additional District Magistrate R R Agarwal and regional SDMs.
Northeast Delhi’s Gokalpuri Tyre market was among the worst affected by the devastating communal riots in February this year included in the destructive trail of houses and shops that were ransacked by the irate communal mobs. JUH, which has been involved in groundwork and rebuilding immediately after the pogrom, has helped reconstruct a total of 97 shops and a masjid inside the market.
JUH renamed the market as Jamiat Tyre Market at the inaugural event, following which rebuilt shops were handed over to their owners. JUH members also planted saplings of different trees at the site. After inaugural, Maulana Madani spoke to the shop owners highlighting that JUH is committed to a humanistic approach and that service to mankind is its topmost duty. He added that, “We are a religious organization, we do not do anything to drive political mileage.”
Maulana Niaz Ahmad Farooqui and Maulana Hakeemuddin Qasmi, secretaries of JUH gave an endnote and said that what they had done in relief and rebuilding measures should have been done by the government. In order to assist victims, JUH secretaries reiterated its demand that the government must increase ex-gratia amount and compensation other than hastening to pay compensation to the victims of Delhi communal riots.