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Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind

MEMORANDUM REGARDING PROBLEMS OF MINORITIES

The Hon’ble Prime Minister
Government of India
New Delhi
2nd November 2002

Dear Prime Minister,

On 15th Oct., the final day of our two weeks long "Save the Country and Nation" peaceful civil disobedience agitation whereby 30588 persons from all over the country courted arrest protesting against neglect of our memorandum of demands submitted to your good self earlier, we were assured by Mr. Vijay Goyal, the hon’ble Minister of State for PMO that we would be provided the opportunity to meet you and our demands would be given due consideration very shortly. We thank you very much that the first part of the assurance has been fulfilled. We are now submitting to you the memorandum of our 13 demands earnestly hoping that the second part of the assurance too would be fulfilled.

In order to put our agitation in its right perspective, I would like to mention that the massacre of minorities and usurpation of their constitutional rights during last 55 years does not affect the specific communities only but the social and economic progress of our country is stalled due to communal violence and discrimination being vigorously propagated and pursued by anti-secular and anti-democratic fascist forces. Therefore it is the Prime duty of yours as the Prime Minister of our great country to rescue our secular and democratic Constitution from being hijacked. Our 13 demands are based on the principles of Justice, equality, freedom and right to life and property enshrined in our Constitution. Their acceptance means upholding the Constitution of India and their rejection means rejection of Constitution of India. I do hope this perspective will facilitate the correct choice.

Along with the memorandum of demands we have also enclosed the recommendations of National Integration Council of communal rights and draft of proposed bill for Preventive and Punitive measures and compensation of communal riots victims of guidance and ready reference.

With kind regards
Yours sincerely,

(Maulana) As’ad Madani
President
Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind
1, Bahadur shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi- 110002 Tel: +91-11-3311455, 3317729 Email: jamiat@ndf.vsnl.net.in Web: http://jamiatulamahind.org/ q

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