Press Statements

• Muslim Mushawarat elects new President and Central Working Committee

  Jan 02, 2016

  Mr. Navaid Hamid has been elected as the President of the AIMMM for a term of two year till 31 December 2017. Out of 147 votes polled by 155 eligible voters, he scored 52 votes against Mr. Manzoor Ahmed IPS (Retd.) and Mr. Mohammad Adeeb who ha...

• Human rights defenders assaulted and severely beaten up in Karimganj, Assam

  Dec 19, 2015

  Guwahati (18 December 2015): Barak Human Rights Protection Committee (BHRPC) has today filed a complaint and appeal for urgent actions to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) regarding a case of assault and intimidation of two human righ...

• ISIS does not exist in India: Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat

  Dec 08, 2015

  No proof of ISIS is making inroads into the Indian Muslim community. AIMMM expressed its anguish over the floods in Tamil Nadu, condemned the vicious statements about Tipu Sultan. Condemned the ongoing cases of kidnappings and conversion to Hindui...

• Massive 'Modi Not Welcome' Projection Appears on British Parliament Building

  Nov 09, 2015

  London (9 November 2015): At 9.00pm last night a massive projection of Narendra Modi holding a sword in one hand and a shield with the Oum symbol with a swastika superimposed appeared on the Houses of Parliament next to the iconic Big Ben. Abov...

• Bihar defeats politics of hatred and intolerance: Popular Front

  Nov 09, 2015

  New Delhi (08-11-2015): Popular Front of India Chairman KM Shareef appreciated the people of Bihar for defeating communal fascist forces in the state. The mandate people of Bihar has conferred upon the Grand alliance is a testimony that peo...

• ‘Reclaim Diwali’ Festival in London, Burn Demons of Hindutva Fascism, #ModiNotWelcome

  Nov 08, 2015

  LONDON (7 November 2015): At a packed hall in south London, some 200 people attended South Asia Solidarity Group's cultural event,  Reclaim Diwali, which is part of the #ModiNotWelcome protests. The event, 'a secular celeb...

• Imams' council slams Sangh Parivar for anti-Tipu campaign

  Nov 07, 2015

  Gulbarga, November 6, 2015: The All India Imams’ Council has condemned the Vishva Hindu Parishad and other Sangh Parivar organisations for allegedly spreading falsehood and indulging in a misleading campaign about Tipu Sultan and portrayi...

• Indian Christians Strongly Condemn Growing Intolerance in the Country

  Nov 03, 2015

  Invite others too to stand up at this time and express concern and do whatever is needed to uphold inclusive development, peace, unity, integrity, sovereignty and harmony in our Country India.

• UK-based South Asia Solidarity Group Deplores Burning Alive of Dalit Children in India

  Oct 25, 2015

  One of Britain’s key activist organisations, South Asia Solidarity Group (SASG), has applauded the courage of the more than 40 writers, to date, who have returned literary awards from India's prestigious Sahitya Academy in protest aga...

• Wave of violence unacceptable: Indian Muslim apex body

  Oct 22, 2015

  Riots, lynching, attacks on churches, mosques and houses of Muslims, Dalits, Adivasis and Christians are a norm now. Modi government must either govern according to the Constitution and laws of the land or pack its bags.

• Modi's upcoming U.K. visit: Women's Organisations, Academics write to him about gender violence

  Oct 17, 2015

  15 October 2015: In the run up to Narendra Modi's visit to the UK, all the major South Asian, Black and minority ethnic women's organisations involved in combatting violence against women, together with more than 20 prominent South Asia...

• J&K Assembly speaker, a diehard RSS man, failed by allowing vandalism

  Oct 08, 2015

  Srinagar (8 October 2015): Prof. Saifuddin Soz, Former Union Minister & Patron J&K Peoples’ Empowerment Mission, has issued the following statement to the press: “We must salute these illustrious sons and daughters of In...

• U.P Govt must go beyond arrests to tackle religious intolerance: Amnesty

  Oct 08, 2015

  New Delhi (8 October 2015): The Uttar Pradesh government must do more to protect the rights of religious minorities in the state, Amnesty International India said today. On 28 September, Mohammed Akhlaq, a 50-year-old Muslim man in Da...

• #Dadri: Secularism, Democracy and entire Social fabric of this nation is on stake!

  Oct 08, 2015

  Hyderabad (7 October 2015): Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee expresses its anguish over the wild Hindutva mob attack incident on Mohammed Akhlaq’s house and his cold blooded murder in subsequent lynching. His son Danish is still strug...

• Mushawarat Working Committee deliberates on national and international issues

  Oct 06, 2015

  Citizenship to non-Muslims of Pakistan and Bangladesh; ISIS; IM; Bihar elections, meat ban, freedom; Punishment to the killers of Akhlaq; Murders in the Kashmir valley; Attacks on Dalits and Adivasis; Shoulder2Shoulder

• Citizens’ fact-finding team harassed by #Dadri police/SDM

  Oct 06, 2015

  AIMMM President has expressed his anguish over the behaviour of the SDM, Dadri and has asked state authorities to take action against him

• Mushawarat condemns threats to John Dayal by Hindu Right wingers

  Sep 18, 2015

  AIMMM condemns the threats issued to the famous human and civil rights activist, Dr John Dayal by Hindutva and Sangh Parivar related individuals and organisations

• Majority of Kashmir do not take beef at all, the ban will be counter productive

  Sep 12, 2015

  Srinagar (12 September, 2015): Prof. Saifuddin Soz, Senior Congress Leader and Former Union Minister, has issued the following statement to the press, today. “The ban on sale of beef in Mumbai has been genuinely rejected by the people...

• UK Dalit organisations write to PM Modi on silence and inaction Dalit massacres revelations

  Aug 25, 2015

  In the run up to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the UK, four of UK's foremost Dalit organisations have written to Narendra Modi, expressing their dismay about the recent revelations by investigative news portal Cobrapost.

• Popular Front distributes scholarships, appeals to pay back to society

  Jul 27, 2015

  Bangalore (24 July 2015): Mohammed Shakib, the state president of PFI urged the students to use their educational expertise to eradicate the difficulties society faces today. He was addressing the law students in scholarship distributi...