Maulana Arshad Madani voices concern over Modi government’s discriminatory measures against the Muslims community
NEW DELHI — The chief of a premier Muslim organisation in the country, Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind (JUH), has expressed grave concern over the multi-faceted challenges being faced by Muslims in the country in the wake of open discrimination against them and rampant Islamophobia.
Pointing out the several issues faced by the community, in particular the repeated jailing of influential Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan and targeting of many individuals in connection with the recent Delhi blast, Maulana Arshad Madani, chief of Darul Uloom Deoband, said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government was bent on depriving the Muslims of their just rights to education, property, jobs, leadership, political and social status.
Speaking at a function of his seminary on Saturday, Maulana Arshad Madani strongly criticised the Modi government and said that today a Muslim can become the mayor of New York (Zahran Mamdani) and London (Sadiq Khan), but a Muslim cannot become the Vice-Chancellor (V-C) of a university in India. “Even if someone becomes the Vice-Chancellor, he is sent to jail, just like Azam Khan. What is happening in Al-Falah today? The government is making every effort to ensure that Muslims can never raise their heads,” he regretted.
The seminary head said that the owner of Al-Falah University is in jail, adding, “No one knows how long he will remain in jail. What kind of judicial system is this that a person is kept in jail continuously when the case has not even been fully proven.”
Al-Falah University founder and chairman Jawad Ahmed Siddiqui has recently been remanded to 13 days of Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody over money-laundering charges and forged accreditation claims. His ancestral house in Madhya Pradesh has also been served a demolition notice.
Maulana Madani said even in the last 75 years of independence, Muslims are being prevented from advancing in education, leadership, and administrative structures.
He said that the government wants to snatch the land from under the feet of Muslims and to a large extent it has been snatched away.
