Muslim Bodies In Kerala Condemn RSS-Jamaat Talks

By P. Sreekumaran

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Varied Muslim organisations in Kerala have strongly criticized the dialogue the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) had with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) not too long ago.

The crux of the Muslim organizations’ argument was that the JIH was making an attempt to cosy as much as the RSS out of worry. Additionally they suspected the JIH of getting some vested pursuits to guard.

The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), the second strongest associate within the Congress-led United Democratic Entrance (UDF), was immediate in condemning the dialogue in no unsure phrases. IUML leaders PK Kunhalikutty and MK Munir the scenario acquiring within the nation now didn’t warrant an pressing dialogue with the RSS.

It could be famous that the office-bearers of the Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulema have remained tight-lipped, up to now.  Nevertheless, its Mushawara member Umer Faizy accused the JIH of being petrified of the RSS.  Faizy is without doubt one of the hardliners in Samastha who’re against any dialogue with Hindutva organisations. The Kerala Muslim Jamat, headed by Kanthapuram AP Aboobacker Musliyar known as the RSS-JIH talks a historic blunder. The Muslim Jamat is of the thought of view that the RSS is an enemy of India and the nation’s secular ethos.  A dialogue with such a corporation can be nothing however embracing an enemy. Theocracy is one thing that binds the 2 teams. This being the tough actuality, the JIH has develop into a device for whitewashing the anti-India fascist forces.

The Kerala Naduvathul Mujahideen state chief TP Abdullah Koya Madani additionally recognized himself with the opinions voiced by the IUML and Kerala Muslim Jamat.  Madani termed it as a unilateral dialogue, which created the suspicion that the JIH had some vested pursuits to guard. On its half, the Sunni Yuvajana Sangham chief Abdussamad Pookkoottur stated there was no means the RSS-JIH dialogue might be justified. It was unacceptable.

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan can be strongly crucial of the dialogue. The JIH dialogue with RSS was harmful because the RSS desires to determine a Hindurashtra by making the minorities second class residents. Pinarayi additionally requested the JIH to reveal the small print of the talks. The JIH, he added, didn’t maintain the patent for upholding minority proper within the nation.  Its hopes of reforming the RSS was tantamount to anticipating a leopard to vary its spots, the CM stated, including that the JIH had revealed its true colors by making an attempt to cosy as much as the Hindu majoritarian group. Pinarayi harassed the paramount want to guard the spiritual, ethnic and linguistic minorities.  The JIH was additionally responsible, the CM alleged, of difficult the secular values of the nation by making an attempt to comfortable as much as the RSS. Its actions amounted to lending legitimacy to the RSS agenda, Pinarayi stated in a strongly-worded assertion.

Left chief KT Jaleel, MLA, has additionally been severely crucial of the JIH. The individuals of the State, Jaleel stated, had a proper to know the small print of the talks. Has the RSS expressed regrets for the dying of fifty individuals, together with Mohammed Akhlaq, who had been brutally killed within the wake of the meat controversy.  Has the BJP apologized for the Gujarat bloodbath? Did UP Chief Minister Adityanath comply with drop the transfer to rename locations?  Has the Welfare Occasion, the political wing of the Jamat, rece4ived any assurance of being made part of the BJP-led Nationwide Democratic Alliance (NDA)?  Did they assure that the particular standing of Jammu and Kashmir can be reinstated? Did the RSS leaders give an assurance on withdrawing the Muthalaq laws? These had been among the questions Jaleel posed to the JIH leaders.

The closed-door assembly was held in New Delhi On January 12.  The RSS was represented by sahasarkaryavahak DR Gopal Krishna and nationwide government member Indresh Kumar.  By the way, Indresh has been the pointsman of RSS in its outreach programme in the direction of the Muslim group over the a long time.

In the meantime, RSS chief Indresh stated the dialogue was results of the need of many Muslim organisations to have   consultations with the RSS.  He stated the Muslim Rashtriya Manch a non-political group, had held conferences with the Muslim organisations to take away the misrepresentat6ion amongst them in the direction of others.  An invite to have talks with the RSS adopted. They had been eager on a national-level dialogue with RSS leaders, in accordance with Indresh.  The primary assembly was held when Sudarshan was the RSS chief.  Since then, the dialogue is progressing in a number of types, he added.   As an illustration, the assembly held between RSS s chief Mohan Bhagwat and Muslim leaders like YS Qureshi Najeeb Jung and others is being described as a “assembly of the minds”.  The Muslim Rashtriya Manch, Indresh stated, would arrange dialogues at a whole lot of locations from Kashmir to Kanyakumari to resolve the problems of discord between the Muslim and Hindu communities.

Now that the dialogue has evoked robust criticism, it stays to be seen how the longer term dialogue, if any, would play out.  (IPA Service)

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