Kashmir: RSS backed Jamaat luring Muslim voters New Delhi: A day after clerics of Kashmir alleged RSS activists accompanying an ‘Islamic cleric’ tried to persuade them to vote for BJP, one of the leading Islamic organizations of India, Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind (JUH) Friday revealed that an organization called ‘Jamaat Ulema-i-Hind’ is active in Kashmir to persuade Muslims to vote and support BJP in the coming Assembly elections. In an interview with Srinagar based news agency CNS, General Secretary JUH, Hakim-u-Din Qasmi said that in a bid to lure Muslim voters all across India, RSS in league with BJP persuaded a cleric from Bijnoor Uttar Pradesh to float a parallel Islamic organization and to confuse common people they named it Jamaat Ulmae-i-Hind. Our organization (Jamiat) was founded in 1919 and it is apolitical while BJP and RSS sponsored organization (Jamaat) is political in nature and its sole agenda is to motivate Muslims of India to vote and support BJP,” Qasmi said. General Secretary JUH revealed that Jamaat is the brain child of RSS and it is run by Bijnoor cleric Suhaib-u-Rehman who is presently active in Kashmir. “This man (Suhaib-u-Rehman) is enjoying the patronage of BJP and RSS in Jammu and Kashmir and he has arrived in the State as their guest. Suhaib-u-Rehman is finding all ways and means to get connected to some of the clerics in Kashmir to make BJP strong there,” he said. General Secretary JUH added that from past few years, Jammat under the presidentship of Rehman has successfully managed to persuade and motivate thousands of Muslims to join BJP. “He has great purchasing power and is being whole-heartedly funded by RSS and BJP together,” Qasmi told CNS adding that Jamaat has tarnished the image of Islam in India and now it is trying to do the same in Kashmir. “We condemn his actions in Kashmir. JUH wants to make it clear that it is apolitical and its sole purpose is to help downtrodden. We want to inform the people particularly the clerics of Kashmir that it is the RSS backed Jamaat-ulema-i-Hind led by Rehman that is canvassing for BJP in Kashmir,” he said.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 04:48:21 +0000
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