Mujtaba Farooque to head Jamat-e-Islami Hind’s new political party

by CD NetworkMonday, 18 April 2011 12:09

 

New Delhi, April 18: Mujtaba Farooque of Aurangabad has been elected as the president of Welfare Party of India, a political outfit launched by the Jamat-e-Islami Hind.

The decision to form the new political party was endorsed by the Majlise Numayindagan (hightest representative body) in its session held at the Jamat headquarters in Okhla, Old Delhi.

Dr Syed Qasim Rasul Ilyas has been named the general secretary while Lalitha Naik, Father Abraham Joseph, Dr Zafarul Islam Khan, Abdul Wahab Khilji and Ilyas Azmi will be the vice presidents.

Dr 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 Organisation of India (SIO).

Mr Mujtaba Farooque  belongs to Aurangabad and was attracted to the Jamat in his student days. He has been state chief of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Maharashtra for some time. He is also actively involved in various socio, economic and political causes. 

Earlier speaking to the media SQR Ilyas, who is also the Majlise Shoora member of the JIH, clarified that the new outfit  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.

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