By IndiaTomorrow.net,
New Delhi, 07 Nov 2014: India’s largest Muslim organization on Friday called upon country’s largest minority community to play a constructive role in the development and progress of the country. Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, at the conclusion of three-day session of its Central Advisory Council here today, asked Muslims to support public welfare schemes of the government and peacefully protest if there is any intervention in their religious freedom and constitutional rights. In a three-point resolution, the CAC of Jamaat supported Narendra Modi-led BJP government’s Clean India Campaign and Model Village program.
In a resolution the CAC said the BJP-led government at the Centre is now disregarding the announcements and promises of ‘development’ and ‘good governance’ it made during the Lok Sabha election campaign. It appreciated the government measures like Swachh Bharat and adopting one village in every parliamentary constituency for exemplary progress, etc. But it voiced concern over ‘increasing participation of corporates in government functioning’, scraping of constitutional institutions, increasing influence of western culture on the society, and on promoting ‘the values of a particular religion in every sphere of life, which stands in open contravention of the Constitution of India’.
Jamaat appealed to the Government to realise that ‘it is the government of the entire country and all its citizens’ and ‘to take care of the interests of all citizens’.
In another resolution, it called upon the Muslims in India to ‘support government decisions which are in accordance with the Constitution of India and for public welfare’, and ‘raise voice in a peaceful manner in the light of the Constitution and law of the land against those measures and decisions which intervene in our beliefs and institutions or whereby efforts are made to subjugate us or which increase the sufferings of the poor, labourers and the suppressed and deprived sections of the society’.
Jamaat also urged the Muslims to ‘play a positive and constructive role in the progress and advancement of the country’.
In another resolution, Jamaat condemned ‘the extremist and violent goings-on in the name of ISIL’ and appealed to the youth ‘not to get influenced by such misleading slogans and appeals as have been declared doubtful and undesirable by eminent Ulema and movements in the Muslim world’.
It also condemned the way sentences are being pronounced against the leaders of Bangladesh Jamaat Islami and urged the Government of India to use its office ‘for restoration of rule of law and justice in Bangladesh.’
