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As per announcement, the Winter Session of Parliament will commence from 22nd November 2011. Jamaat-e-Islami Hind demands the UPA Government to table and pass in this Session these pending Bills and issues related to the interests of minorities, deprived sections and general public.
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind says that in the Winter Session, the Government should
- accept the amendments in Central Waqf Act proposed by Muslims
- declare reservation for Muslims, implementing recommendations of Ranganath
Mishra Commission - pass the Communal Violence (Prevention) Bill as proposed by National Advisory Council
- pass the Food Security Bill as proposed by NAC, and
- table an effective Lokpal Bill in Parliament to root out corruption
The following are the summarized descriptions of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind’s demands:
1. Waqf Amendment Bill:
One of these pending issues is Waqf Amendment Bill, which was handed over to a Selected Committee of Rajya Sabha. It is to be mentioned that Muslims and their organisations had raised serious objections to the Waqf Amendment Bill passed by Lok Sabha; then it was handed over to a Selected Committee led by Mr. Saifuddin Soz.
Muslim organisations, legal luminaries and All India Muslim Personal Law Board made a representation before the Selected Committee and submitted in black and white their amendments and proposals to the Committee. The need is that the Government should table in this Session of Parliament an effective Waqf Amendment Bill based on the amendments presented to the Selected Committee as well as the proposals advanced by the Sachchar Committee and Joint Parliamentary Committee on Waqf Amendment Bill to make the waqf institutions more effective, and get it passed.
2. Reservation for Muslims:
The UPA Government, during its first stint, formed a commission led by Justice Ranganath Mishra to suggest recommendations for reservation in education and employment of Muslims and other minorities. The commission recommended for Muslims and other minorities (religious and linguistic) 15 per cent reservation (10 per cent for Muslims alone) in education and employment. Besides, it also recommended annulment of the Presidential ordinance on Section 341, whereby Muslims have been deprived of SC/ST reservation. Unfortunately, the Government shelved the Report for about two years. Later on, the pressure mounted by Muslims forced the Government to table the Report in Parliament, but no action has yet been taken on it nor did the Government present any action taken report in Parliament.
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind demands that, as per recommendations of Ranganath Commission
(A) The restriction imposed by the Presidential ordinance on Section 341 of the Constitution be removed forthwith, and Muslims must be included in the SC/SC reservation category;
(B) Government should declare 10 per cent reservation for Muslims in education and employment; and
(C) Government should fix in OBC quota a sub-quota for the Muslim sects that are already mentioned in the OBC list under Mandal Commission, in proportion to their population.
3. Communal Violence (Prevention) Bill:
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind demands that the Communal Violence (Prevention) Bill as proposed by National Advisory Council be tabled in the Winter Session of Parliament. It was a long pending demand of the various commissions, civil society movements and minorities to enact an effective law to contain communal violence. The proposed Bill of the Central Government, after passing through several stages, is now in the final shape as concluded by the NAC. Despite certain defects and weaknesses therein, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind takes it, from many aspects, as an effective law. However, there is a need to make the National Authority and the State Authority, proposed under this law, powerful. In the present shape, its status, like that of National Human Rights Commission, is of a mere recommendatory institution. Similarly, as regards to compensation and relief, there should be equal provisions for the entire country and for all sections of the society.
The recent wave of communal violence in the various parts of the country has once again brought the need and importance of this law into limelight. BJP and other communal elements are dishing out the misleading propaganda that this proposed law is against the Hindus and that it has been pre-conceived that riots begin from the majority side. This is a baseless propaganda. First, this law is related to all minorities in the country, not Muslims alone. In certain States in the country even Hindus are in minority, i.e. in Jammu & Kashmir and certain North-Eastern States. Secondly, the canvas of this law expands to SCs/STs. Thirdly, it has been acknowledged in the United Nations Charter and the Constitution of India that minorities need constitutional and legal protection. Therefore, this law is in strict accordance with the spirit of the Constitution. Further, minorities have been made to bear the loss of life, property and dignity during communal riots one-sidedly, right from 1947 till now, the proof of which is there also in undeniable evidences, police records and reports of commissions. Therefore, people need not get influenced by this mischievous and misleading propaganda.
4. Food Security Bill:
One important issue is that of Food Security Bill, the promise of which the UPA Government made during its first stint. Jamaat-e-Islami Hind feels that the Bill proposed by the National Advisory Council in this regard fulfils this need to a great extent. Therefore, it demands that the Bill be tabled in the Winter Session of Parliament, and passed. Jamaat-e-Islami Hind supports the NAC proposal that equality should be effective in the Ration Distribution System so that the need of food for every citizen of the country may be fulfilled. Escalating prices and inflation have made a hell of human life.
Recently, the Planning Commission, by filing an affidavit in the Supreme Court fixing Rs. 26 (for a family consisting of five members) daily earning for rural areas and Rs. 32 (for a family consisting of five members) daily earning for urban areas as poverty level, stunned the country. It was to the Government, if a 5-member family earns Rs. 26 a day in rural areas and Rs. 32 a day in urban areas, the family is above the poverty line and does not fall in the category of poor families, and would be deprived of all welfare schemes. It is enough to envisage how serious the Government is about alleviation of poverty. Our country is reckoned as one among the developed countries of the world; but it is a painful reality that more than half of the hungry, homeless, diseased, destitute and helpless in the world consist of Indian citizens.
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind demands that Right to Livelihood be accepted as a Fundamental Right, and the Government must guarantee that every citizen would get facilities for healthy food, dress, home, low-priced and proper medical treatment and basic education.
5. Lok Pal Law:
The increasing popularity of Anna Hazare movement against corruption has proved that the citizens of the country do want an effective law that can root out corruption from the society. Despite having difference of opinion with the methodology of India Against Corruption movement, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind agrees to its objectives. The Jamaat demands that the Government should table an effective Lok Pal Bill in the Winter Session of Parliament to root out corruption. Every type of corruption should fall in the pale of this law; however corruption in judiciary should be left to the Judicial Commission.
Syed Jalaluddin Umari
Ameer, Jamaat-e-Islami HindAs per announcement, the Winter Session of Parliament will commence from 22nd November 2011. Jamaat-e-Islami Hind demands the UPA Government to table and pass in this Session these pending Bills and issues related to the interests of minorities, deprived sections and general public.
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind says that in the Winter Session, the Government should
- accept the amendments in Central Waqf Act proposed by Muslims
- declare reservation for Muslims, implementing recommendations of Ranganath
Mishra Commission - pass the Communal Violence (Prevention) Bill as proposed by National Advisory Council
- pass the Food Security Bill as proposed by NAC, and
- table an effective Lokpal Bill in Parliament to root out corruption
The following are the summarized descriptions of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind’s demands:
1. Waqf Amendment Bill:
One of these pending issues is Waqf Amendment Bill, which was handed over to a Selected Committee of Rajya Sabha. It is to be mentioned that Muslims and their organisations had raised serious objections to the Waqf Amendment Bill passed by Lok Sabha; then it was handed over to a Selected Committee led by Mr. Saifuddin Soz.
Muslim organisations, legal luminaries and All India Muslim Personal Law Board made a representation before the Selected Committee and submitted in black and white their amendments and proposals to the Committee. The need is that the Government should table in this Session of Parliament an effective Waqf Amendment Bill based on the amendments presented to the Selected Committee as well as the proposals advanced by the Sachchar Committee and Joint Parliamentary Committee on Waqf Amendment Bill to make the waqf institutions more effective, and get it passed.
2. Reservation for Muslims:
The UPA Government, during its first stint, formed a commission led by Justice Ranganath Mishra to suggest recommendations for reservation in education and employment of Muslims and other minorities. The commission recommended for Muslims and other minorities (religious and linguistic) 15 per cent reservation (10 per cent for Muslims alone) in education and employment. Besides, it also recommended annulment of the Presidential ordinance on Section 341, whereby Muslims have been deprived of SC/ST reservation. Unfortunately, the Government shelved the Report for about two years. Later on, the pressure mounted by Muslims forced the Government to table the Report in Parliament, but no action has yet been taken on it nor did the Government present any action taken report in Parliament.
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind demands that, as per recommendations of Ranganath Commission
(A) The restriction imposed by the Presidential ordinance on Section 341 of the Constitution be removed forthwith, and Muslims must be included in the SC/SC reservation category;
(B) Government should declare 10 per cent reservation for Muslims in education and employment; and
(C) Government should fix in OBC quota a sub-quota for the Muslim sects that are already mentioned in the OBC list under Mandal Commission, in proportion to their population.
3. Communal Violence (Prevention) Bill:
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind demands that the Communal Violence (Prevention) Bill as proposed by National Advisory Council be tabled in the Winter Session of Parliament. It was a long pending demand of the various commissions, civil society movements and minorities to enact an effective law to contain communal violence. The proposed Bill of the Central Government, after passing through several stages, is now in the final shape as concluded by the NAC. Despite certain defects and weaknesses therein, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind takes it, from many aspects, as an effective law. However, there is a need to make the National Authority and the State Authority, proposed under this law, powerful. In the present shape, its status, like that of National Human Rights Commission, is of a mere recommendatory institution. Similarly, as regards to compensation and relief, there should be equal provisions for the entire country and for all sections of the society.
The recent wave of communal violence in the various parts of the country has once again brought the need and importance of this law into limelight. BJP and other communal elements are dishing out the misleading propaganda that this proposed law is against the Hindus and that it has been pre-conceived that riots begin from the majority side. This is a baseless propaganda. First, this law is related to all minorities in the country, not Muslims alone. In certain States in the country even Hindus are in minority, i.e. in Jammu & Kashmir and certain North-Eastern States. Secondly, the canvas of this law expands to SCs/STs. Thirdly, it has been acknowledged in the United Nations Charter and the Constitution of India that minorities need constitutional and legal protection. Therefore, this law is in strict accordance with the spirit of the Constitution. Further, minorities have been made to bear the loss of life, property and dignity during communal riots one-sidedly, right from 1947 till now, the proof of which is there also in undeniable evidences, police records and reports of commissions. Therefore, people need not get influenced by this mischievous and misleading propaganda.
4. Food Security Bill:
One important issue is that of Food Security Bill, the promise of which the UPA Government made during its first stint. Jamaat-e-Islami Hind feels that the Bill proposed by the National Advisory Council in this regard fulfils this need to a great extent. Therefore, it demands that the Bill be tabled in the Winter Session of Parliament, and passed. Jamaat-e-Islami Hind supports the NAC proposal that equality should be effective in the Ration Distribution System so that the need of food for every citizen of the country may be fulfilled. Escalating prices and inflation have made a hell of human life.
Recently, the Planning Commission, by filing an affidavit in the Supreme Court fixing Rs. 26 (for a family consisting of five members) daily earning for rural areas and Rs. 32 (for a family consisting of five members) daily earning for urban areas as poverty level, stunned the country. It was to the Government, if a 5-member family earns Rs. 26 a day in rural areas and Rs. 32 a day in urban areas, the family is above the poverty line and does not fall in the category of poor families, and would be deprived of all welfare schemes. It is enough to envisage how serious the Government is about alleviation of poverty. Our country is reckoned as one among the developed countries of the world; but it is a painful reality that more than half of the hungry, homeless, diseased, destitute and helpless in the world consist of Indian citizens.
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind demands that Right to Livelihood be accepted as a Fundamental Right, and the Government must guarantee that every citizen would get facilities for healthy food, dress, home, low-priced and proper medical treatment and basic education.
5. Lok Pal Law:
The increasing popularity of Anna Hazare movement against corruption has proved that the citizens of the country do want an effective law that can root out corruption from the society. Despite having difference of opinion with the methodology of India Against Corruption movement, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind agrees to its objectives. The Jamaat demands that the Government should table an effective Lok Pal Bill in the Winter Session of Parliament to root out corruption. Every type of corruption should fall in the pale of this law; however corruption in judiciary should be left to the Judicial Commission.
Syed Jalaluddin Umari
Vagish Issar (Ivsk Delhi) 09810068474
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