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Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) has initiated its relief and rehabilitation work for riot victims in northeast Delhi after a series of visits to assess damage of life and property.
“Jamaat will establish a temporary hospital at our control center for those who require medical attention,” said JIH National Secretary, Mohammed Ahmed. Ahmed is heading the relief initiative which is set up as a control center to coordinate its relief activities in a coordinated and phased manner in northeast Delhi.
Ahmed discussed that JIH is also helping in the work of registering FIRs and legal prosecution with help from associated organizations and a team of dedicated volunteers. He discussed that some major activities under the programme include surveying to assess the scale of damage, helping the victims to complete the documentation required for claiming the government-announced benefits and psychological counseling of the victims. Ahmed commended women and girls for actively leading the relief control set up.
Ahmed further gave specific details of the relief work carried out by JIH in riot-hit areas as of March 6, 2020 by stating that it has supplied 2400 food-kits including – rice, sugar, cooking oil, biscuits, bournvita and chocolates in 8 camps in East Delhi, medical emergency relief and medicines worth Rs 1 lakh, baby food kits and sanitary napkins about 550 in number, mattresses and pillows about 1500 in total and free treatment to riot-affected victims at Al Shifa Hospital in Abul Fazal Enclave. The Jamaat has also sent a team of professional counselors (both male and female) for extensive counseling of riot-affected patients at the GTB and LNJP Hospitals.
Ahmed informed that a specialist from Delhi University was engaged last week to conduct a workshop for training of “Survey Volunteers”. He said that JIH is currently working to provide legal aid and compensation to victims and more than 100 forms have been filled of late. JIH is also planning to meet Imams of mosques that were vandalized during the riots.
This comes after JIH President Syed Sadatullah Hussaini said last week that “Delhi violence clearly indicates that it was preplanned in which lives, businesses and properties of Muslims were specifically targeted.” On asking about the Jamaat’s activities regarding CAA-NRC, he said that relief activities are also underway for protest victims and citizens excluded in the NRC.
After visits to the relief camps set up different social organizations in the aftermath of Delhi riots, Hussaini opined that, “the quantum, method of execution and ferocity of the attacks on the localities indicate a meticulous planning, weapons training given to attackers with a specific objective of targeting the Muslim community, their businesses, properties and places of worship.”
He added that it is the job of the police to find who was behind the violence but everyone knows who is peddling the ideology of hate and polarizing society. He blamed the provocative speeches by politicians who sparked the violence. He continued, “But the role of the police as can be seen in various videos and reports has been very disturbing.”
JIH chief, Hussaini also condemned the ban on Media-One and Asianet asserting that the government has failed to act on channels that spout hate but banned those who reported without fear and favor. According to them, this biased action of the government only “shows that the government wants to control the media narrative and it is a dangerous trend that must be resisted.”