Will address your woes, Modi assures Muslims
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a meeting with senior leaders of Muslim Community in New Delhi on Monday. (PTI Photo)
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised to address grievances of all sections of the Muslim society with special focus on ameliorating their social conditions and meeting educational requirements.
The PM's assurance came when senior community leaders apprised him of their concerns, particularly increasing radicalization and the looming threat of terrorism.
"While expressing apprehensions about the trend of increased radicalisation and emerging threat of terrorism, the leaders underlined the need for greater unity and collective efforts to meet the challenge," said a PMO release.
The PM emphasizsed the need to empower Muslim youth to enable them to play a larger role in nation-building.
The community leaders brought to the PM's notice issues relating to properties of Muslim shrines, mosques and madrassas. Modi assured to look into their grievances.
The Muslim leaders reiterated the community's full support to the government's objectives of ensuring speedy economic growth, promoting communal harmony and peace and strengthening national security.
The delegation included Syed Sultan-ul-Hasan Chishti Misbahi from Ajmer Sharif, Hazrat Ghulam Yasin Sahib from Varanasi, Sheikh Wasim Ashrafi from Mumbai, and Allama Tasleem Raaza Sahib from Dargah Barelvi Sharif in Bareilly.
The other members were Mohd Hamid (National President, Imam Tanzeem, Nagpur), Syed Abdul Rashid Ali (Syed Shahid Dargah Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh), Maulana Abu Bakr Basani (Nagori Sharif Dargah, Rajasthan), Syed Ali Akbar (Taajpura Sharif, Chennai) and Haji Abdul Hafiz Khan (Imam, Tanzeem Balaghat, MP).
After a series of attacks on churches and the 'Ghar Wapasi' programme raised concerns among minority communities, Modi had said he would not allow any religious group to incite hatred against others overtly or covertly.
"Nobody has the right to discriminate on the basis of religion. My government has only this ideology - India and the Constitution above all else," Modi had told Parliament.
Meanwhile according to agency report, Ajmer Dargah Deewan Zainul Abedin Ali Khan claimed that he is the 'Sajjada Nashin' (successor) and not the one who met PM Modi as part of a delegation as mentioned in a PMO statement.
Khan claimed he was the official successor of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti and did not attend the meeting.
"The person who met the PM as Sajjada Nashin is not the Sajjada Nashin of Ajmer Sharif. The Sajjada Nashin Deewan Zainul Abedin Ali Khan was in Ajmer on Monday and if anyone has misused this title and designation, he has not only misled the PM but it is also a breach in PM's security," a statement from the office of Ajmer Dargah Deewan said.
The PMO statement mentions 'Syed Sultan-Ul-Hasan Chishti Misbahi (Sajjada Nashin of Ajmer Sharif)' as one of the Muslim leaders who called on the PM earlier in the day.
The PM's assurance came when senior community leaders apprised him of their concerns, particularly increasing radicalization and the looming threat of terrorism.
"While expressing apprehensions about the trend of increased radicalisation and emerging threat of terrorism, the leaders underlined the need for greater unity and collective efforts to meet the challenge," said a PMO release.
The community leaders brought to the PM's notice issues relating to properties of Muslim shrines, mosques and madrassas. Modi assured to look into their grievances.
The Muslim leaders reiterated the community's full support to the government's objectives of ensuring speedy economic growth, promoting communal harmony and peace and strengthening national security.
The delegation included Syed Sultan-ul-Hasan Chishti Misbahi from Ajmer Sharif, Hazrat Ghulam Yasin Sahib from Varanasi, Sheikh Wasim Ashrafi from Mumbai, and Allama Tasleem Raaza Sahib from Dargah Barelvi Sharif in Bareilly.
The other members were Mohd Hamid (National President, Imam Tanzeem, Nagpur), Syed Abdul Rashid Ali (Syed Shahid Dargah Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh), Maulana Abu Bakr Basani (Nagori Sharif Dargah, Rajasthan), Syed Ali Akbar (Taajpura Sharif, Chennai) and Haji Abdul Hafiz Khan (Imam, Tanzeem Balaghat, MP).
After a series of attacks on churches and the 'Ghar Wapasi' programme raised concerns among minority communities, Modi had said he would not allow any religious group to incite hatred against others overtly or covertly.
"Nobody has the right to discriminate on the basis of religion. My government has only this ideology - India and the Constitution above all else," Modi had told Parliament.
Meanwhile according to agency report, Ajmer Dargah Deewan Zainul Abedin Ali Khan claimed that he is the 'Sajjada Nashin' (successor) and not the one who met PM Modi as part of a delegation as mentioned in a PMO statement.
Khan claimed he was the official successor of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti and did not attend the meeting.
"The person who met the PM as Sajjada Nashin is not the Sajjada Nashin of Ajmer Sharif. The Sajjada Nashin Deewan Zainul Abedin Ali Khan was in Ajmer on Monday and if anyone has misused this title and designation, he has not only misled the PM but it is also a breach in PM's security," a statement from the office of Ajmer Dargah Deewan said.
The PMO statement mentions 'Syed Sultan-Ul-Hasan Chishti Misbahi (Sajjada Nashin of Ajmer Sharif)' as one of the Muslim leaders who called on the PM earlier in the day.
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