Sunday, April 17, 2011

Welfare Party, Jamaat E Islami Political Party now Launched -Reports


Ilyas frontrunner for president’s post in Jamaat’s political wing
The new party will field candidates in the Uttar Pradesh poll next year
Samarth Saran 
New Delhi
SQR Ilyas
The Jamaat-e-Islami Hind is all set to launch a political party, the Welfare Party of India, which will field candidates in the 2012 assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh. The official announcement in this regard will come on Monday. However, hectic negations are on within the Jamaat to choose its first president.
The frontrunner in the race is SQR Ilyas, the spokesperson of the Jamaat right now. Giving him competition is former member of Parliament Ilyas Azmi. What goes in favour of Azmi is that he is a seasoned politician. He has done two stints in Parliament. He was elected an MP on a Samajwadi Party ticket in 1996, and then he changed parties and won on a Bahujan Samaj Party ticket in 2004. However, the factor going against him is that he is not a member of the Jamaat.
The odds favour Ilyas as he has been a veteran in the Jamaat and known in the political circles as well. Ilyas is also a member of the Central Advisory Council of the Jamaat. Apart from this, he is the convener of an All India Muslim Personal Law Board committee on the Babri mosque issue.
The Jamaat will hold a meeting on Sunday to discuss the constitution of the new party and decide the candidates for various posts within the party. Jamaat members from all over the country will converge in Delhi for the meeting.

Leaders from the organsiation say that people outside the Jamaat will also be considered for various posts in the party. It has already started roping in influential people with political connections from different states.
The new party is likely to test political waters in the Uttar Pradesh assembly election next year. “We are ready to align with like-minded groups and initiate discussion with them,” says Mujtaba Farooq, the secretary of the Jamaat.
The Jamaat had released a concept paper for the Welfare Party in February. The paper talked about welcoming Dalits and other backward castes in the party.
Samarth Saran is a Correspondent with Tehelka.com

Jamaat allows core members to join new secular party 

VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM
A new political party, Welfare Party of India, with core members drawn for the first time from the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH), will be launched here on Monday.
S.Q.R. Ilyas of the JIH clarified that it would not be a Muslim party but a secular party with members drawn from the Jamaat as well as from across religions, regions and castes. But importantly, “the JIH has spared some of its members for participation in the party.”
This is a first for the JIH, whose members have thus far been prohibited from joining political parties.
The Jamaat's stand till now was that the organisation as a whole could offer support to a party or give guidance to people on whom to vote, but its members could not join any party.
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind all set to launch political party
Influential Muslim outfit Jamaat-e-Islami Hind is all set to test waters in politics by launching a party, an official announcement on which is expected on Monday.
"We are forming a political outfit namely Welfare Party. Though Jamaat is launching the party, the outfit will be an independent body," the Jamaat's convenor S Q R Ilyas said.
A formal announcement in this regard is expected on Monday when the Jamaat is holding a conference.
"During the Monday conference, we will discuss on politics and the announcement could be made on that day," Ilyas told PTI.
He said people need a new political option as corruption in this field is rampant and so "we decided to form a party, which will be devoid of corrupt leaders."
He asserted the party will not only represent Muslims but also other minorities and weaker sections of the society. "We will also raise issues of national interest and inclusive development."
On reports that some senior members of Jamaat are apprehensive of the launch of a political party, Ilyas maintained no one has any problem with it and the decision was unanimous.
An offshoot of the Jamaat-e-Islami, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind was formed in April 1948.


The Right connection
Such a unique show of "friendship" is seldom witnessed. The occasion was the launch of a new political formation, the Welfare Party of India, backed by the Jamaat-e-Islami-e-Hind. The person conducting the proceedings surprisingly called out the name of BJP Minority Morcha in-charge J K Jain and requested him to address the gathering, a majority of whom were Muslims. However, he took care to emphasise that even though the BJP is "our enemy", "Jain Sahib is our friend". As if to return the compliment, Jain began his speech by saying, "I don't know why I have been called". "Still," he said, "I wish you well on my part as well as on behalf of the BJP." He said those at the helm of the new party were his friends. The invitation to Jain to address the gathering, however, did not impress many. Some were heard murmuring that a BJP man should not have been called to the stage. But then politics always makes for strange bedfellows.

Welfare Party of India launched

By ARAB NEWS

NEW DELHI: A new political organization named Welfare Party of India was launched here Monday. Mujtaba Farooque of Aurangabad has been elected president of the party, which was formed by Jamaat-e-Islami Hind with the support of other religious and secular groups.
Syed Qasim Rasul Ilyas has been named the general-secretary of the new political party, while Lalitha Naik, Father Abraham Joseph, Zafarul Islam Khan, Abdul Wahab Khilji and Ilyas Azmi will be the vice presidents, a press statement said.
Salam Vaniyambalam has been appointed the treasurer while the two secretaries will be Rama Pancha and PC Hamza, the former national president of Students Islamic Organization of India (SIO).
Farooque joined Jamaat during his student days. A former state president of Jamaat in Maharashtra, he has been actively involved in various social, economic and political activities.
Speaking to reporters Ilyas, who is also a Shourah member of the JIH, said the new political party would be a secular party with members drawn from different religions, regions and castes. "The JIH has spared some of its members to participate in the party," he added.
The new party is likely to test political waters in the Uttar Pradesh assembly election next year. "We are ready to align with like-minded groups and initiate discussion with them," said Farooque. Jamaat has welcomed Dalits and other backward castes to join the party.
The Welfare Party of India aims at reforming Indian politics and realizing a welfare state based on moral values and governed by the principles of justice, freedom, equality and fraternity.
"To achieve this objective, the party will launch massive public campaigns and will awaken the socio-political public consciousness," a Jamaat official said. "It will try to inculcate among the common people the self esteem, the self confidence and the ambition and courage to fight oppression and exploitation. It will try to promote able and virtuous leadership among masses and advance alternative politics in the country," he added


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