By TwoCircles.net staff reporter,
Kolkata: In line with antiterrorism conferences being held by Muslim organizations after getting inspired by Darul Uloom Deoband’s all-India conference on the issue, West Bengal unit of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind (JUH) held a conference in the city on 17th April.
The conference was meant to spread awareness about the 25th February 25 declaration of the Deoband antiterrorism conference. But with panchayat polls round the corner, the conference was loaded with political issues.
Addressing the gathering, JUH general secretary Maulana Mahmood Madani, who is also Rajya Sabha MP, urged the Muslim community to cast their votes unitedly in the coming panchayat polls. It is expected that the JUH-backed People’s Democratic Conference (PDC) will be fielding 4,000 candidates in the polls. State chief of JUH, Siddiqullah Chowdhury, said the PDC was open to an alliance with other political parties to pull down the ruling CPM government.
Coming down heavily on the West Bengal government, JUH leaders described Leftists as pseudo-secular. They accused the government of doing little for the Muslim community. They said the condition of Muslims is bad in India, but worst in West Bengal. The JUH leaders also termed as rumour the news that the 90-year-old JUH had split.