By TwoCircles.net staff reporter
New Delhi:Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) will now contest elections. It has decided to fight for assemblies and parliament. However, in first stage it will focus on local bodies’ elections. A decision to the effect was taken on 17th February during a four-day workshop going on at its headquarters in New Delhi.
JIH will fight the elections under its own name. However, it may form a separate political front in future. Mujtaba Farooq, JIH secretary for political affairs, said the organization had already contested local bodies’ elections in South India and fifteen of its candidates were presently elected representatives in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh. He said JIH in principle decided to fight elections in 2005 but did not make it public. Whenever local bodies’ elections were held in North India, JIH would participate in them with its full strength, He said.
The workshop ending on 19th February will also discuss several issues confronting Muslims like protection of wakf properties and violation of human rights of Muslims.