Indo-US-Israel-Afghan collaborative game against Pakistan

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: SAFFRON TERROR, THE NEW ENTRANT IN US MAINLAND

America’s Home Land Security Department has its hands full with Islamic
‘terrorism’ within the country and abroad too. However, if India’s Home
minister P. Chidambarms’s  clear warning in the parliament about ‘Saffron
Terrorism’ has opened a Pandora’s Box and news is gradually filtering that
Saffron elements are active in the US at different levels. The arrest of an
Indian film maker Jay Kumar at a Texas airport with Jihadi literature and
brass knuckles, together with a host of material on the art of spying, has
shocked India. Jay Kumar with the extremist RSS links had been invited to
address a Hindu gathering in Texas. It shows that there does exist in the US
various religious or religio-social groups, with links to India’s extremist
terrorist organizations that have now become an open secret in India. RSS,
which was formed back in 1925, had nurtured grass root cadre who took part
in organized communal riots, even with the connivance of the British
administration. They were helpful in clearing up land for the benefit of
Jain Industrialists, who were part of a collective conspiracy to rob Muslims
of their villages and agricultural lands. Their specially is to fight
Muslims. They have been so persuasive and efficient that when a single of
their cadre in the air control tower could easily give wrong instructions to
two airplanes, one from Saudia and another from Kazkhakistan that resulted
in mid-air collision. All 349 people on board both flights were killed,
making it the deadliest mid-air collision in history. The whole episode was
so efficiently managed that the air-controller was never heard from.
Instead, RSS cadre descended on the clash sites on the pretext of providing
humananitarian aid, though in fact scourging the area for any tell-tale
evidence, which were wiped out. It is interesting to note how Lockerbee
disaster was continuously monitored and security agencies from different
countries collaborated to bring out the correct picute. Nothing like
happened in case of Charkhi Dadri, Haryana in India. That shows how much
Congress government is hand and glove the extremists.

Another warning was raised by Dr. Omar Khalidi of Waltham, MA, about the
proposed visit of one RSS rabble rouser, Kumari Rathambara, who played a
major role in mass movement leading to the pulling down of the Babri Masjid,
in Ayodhaya. Thousands innocent died in communal riots organized by Saffron
cadre, all over the country. If she is coming to US, that means she could be
having an agenda that may or may not be in consonance with US policies in
India, especially concerning either Indian Muslims or the Muslim world at
large. Saffron extremist find ready help, assistance and support from
extremist Zionists of the type that have blown of the matter of Zero Ground
Mosque. Both groups posed themselves the chosen people of the world and thus
find natural affinity.

An earlier attempt for Gujarat’s Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who is widely
believed to be behind the state sponsored Gujarat genocidal riots, was early
nibbed in but, when State Department refused to give him a via, apprehesive
of widespread demonstration against him in the US.

The recent upsurge in Hindu extremist entry into US mainland is possibly an
organized attempt to present the US administration with some fait accompli,
about their anti-social activities, their anti-Muslim agenda, their media
savvy, and their identification with other anti-Muslim groups in the US. A
face-off between the two sides, will further disturb America’s communal
harmony. The reaction of Muslims whether Indian or world Muslims, is still
in the offing. It will appear once the Saffron show their true colors in the
US. It is better for Homeland Security to be forewarned. Raj Kumar’s US visa
was cancelled instantly, even before any court proceedings against him. Such
vigilance in issuing of US visa to dubious extremist characters from India
would go a long way in maintaining peace.

*Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai*

*ghulammuhamm…@gmail.com*

*<http://www.ghulammuhammed.blogspot.com>*

 

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Sunday, August 15, 2010

Times Of India does it again – IX

TOI brings Islam into Kashmir imbraglio

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*As a gift of India’s 63rd Independence Day, Time of India has once again
targeted Indian Muslims for their grave sin of adopting Islam as their
religion. *

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*TOI published an article on August 15, 2010 in its print edition, penned by
TOI’s own special hatchet-man, bearing a Muslim name, but sold out to his
employers in churning out articles that do not reflect either the truth or
the real aspirations of Indian Muslims, whom TOI had directly addressed its
exhortation. *

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*By selecting the headline: “Geelani should re-read Islam”, Mohammed
Wajihuddin and TOI have challenged Indian Muslims in general to interpret
Islam, as per the guidance of the Jain owner’s own agenda. *

* *

*However, the Kashmir problem which is being discussed interwoven into the
narrative, has nothing to do with Islam. It is a movement against the
oppression of a government run by a hawkish oligarchy that is so drunk with
the power of army, that it has no need to treat its ‘supposedly’ own people
as human beings. Can the modern media-linked world remain calm if 50
protestors are killed by security forces within a fortnight in any part of
the world?*

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*The name of democracy, freedom and secularism is repeatedly abused in
legitimizing an obnoxiously oppressive regime on people that are not
necessarily of the same colour, race, religion, social status and/ethnicity
as the ruling elite.*

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*To make Kashmir, an issue of Islam, Wajihuddin has blatantly sidetracked
the grievances of Kashmiris as articulated at least in large part by Ahmed
Shah Geelani, whose personal antecedent is only incidental as his word of
peace that brought the stone-pelting youngsters from the streets of
curfew-imposed Kashmiri towns and villages, to call off their street
violence, has more to do with Geelani’s steadfast opposition to New Delhi,
which has for all practical purposes imposed an occupation army on the
state. *

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*By bringing in Islam, Wajihuddin and TOI are trying to sidetrack the whole
issue of legitimate public protests against the brutal stranglehold of a web
of so-called security regime, whose mind-set has been most pronouncedly for
decades that of an occupied force holding on to a conquered people.*

* *

*Wajihuddin’s line up of the 3 Islamic scholars to bolster his agenda
against Islam, themselves have not been able to establish any linkages
between the current political upheaval and Islam. *

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*Maulana Wahiduddin Khan’s narration of an stray incidence has nothing to do
with any Islamic content to his political views that with the so-called
independence, if at all granted to Kashmir, Azad Kashmir will be a failed
state. That verdict is a political judgment and has nothing to do with his
Islamic scholarship. *

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*The same is the case with Wajihuddin’s other favourite Islamic scholars,
who are bringing in the subject of Islamic fundamentalism and extremism to
legitimize the fundamentalism and extremism of the Indian security elements
in Kashmir. *

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*Sultan Shahin has an axe to grind against Islamic radicals and his vision
is so blurred that he cannot see that the problem of Kashmir is not of the
making of any Islamic fundamentalist; though they, the radicals may try to
hijack it as such. It is a straight forward problem of governance of a
people that do not see eye to eye with their distant rulers who have made
their everyday lives fraught with fear and despair and that too for over
half a century. *

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*By trying to sideline the real problem from the real life miseries, and
shift the focus to Islam and its radicals, TOI and Wajihuddin are in fact
rendering a disservice to India itself. *

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*Unless the rulers are made aware that the protests mounted by genuine
victims of India’s heavily oppressive army presence in every nook of corner
of their communities, is not emanating from Islam, all efforts if any by the
ruling coterie at the helm of affair in New Delhi, will only buy time for a
further later postponement of the real problems till outsiders intervene. If
India is constitutionally secular, the basic logic of its solutions for
Kashmir has to be on the lines of secular principles and not on the
confrontational lines of Islam v/s Hindutva, as TOI would like to have it.*

* *

*Wajihuddin holds that ‘ The demand for a separate or Pakistani Kashmir is
based on a skewed, selective reading of Islam.’ He brings in Geelani’s
supposed ideological mentors, Jamaate Islam’s founder Maulana Abul Ala
Maududi and Egyptian scholars Syed Qutub and Hasan al Banna before  him who
propagated the theory that Islam wanted Muslims to strive and establish an
Islamic state. But the exclusivitism idealized by some Islamic scholar does
not hide the fact that it is a basic human instinct. Did not Nehru, Patel
and other Congress leaders, agreed to partition as they wanted the rest of
India to be ruled exclusively by them — the Brahmin ruling class? So why
then merely demonise Muslim scholars. This is age-old and universal and
almost human phenomenon. History is unfortunately replete with incidents
where the need to go exclusive has been the real motivations to lead to both
victories and disasters. Are US and Zionists not trying to impose their New
World Order to achieve exclusive power to rule the world on their terms? *

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*It is another matter that in India, Congress leaders did not succeed in
achieving the exclusivity that they had planned by wholesale transfer of
entire Muslim population to the other side. But short of that, have they not
succeeded gaining effective and practical exclusivity by continuing to
discriminate, de-legitimise and corrode Muslim citizenship in India. It
started with India’s first President Rajendra Prasad passing a decree to
exclude Muslim Dalits from any reservation equations, even if they were
backward and Dalit. It started with India’s first home minister Sardar Patel
issuing secret memo to all security agencies in the land to weed out
Muslims. Why Wajihuddian and TOI does not raise its ‘truth should prevail’
campaign against that Brahmin ‘exclusivity’ instead of crying over Maududi’s
call for Muslim state which is hardly relevant to India or Kashmir?*

* *

*Wajihuddin has a point that ‘the argument that the Muslim majority Kashmir
must either go to Islamic Pakistan or become a separate, sovereign Islamic
state defies the Valley’s own history.’ That ethos is still thriving when
Geelani wants Kashmiri Brahmins to come back in full peace, honour and
brotherhood. In Kashmir, if the so-called fundamentalist Muslim like Geelani
extends a welcome to Brahmins, he has people’s trust to see that happen in
toto. Kashmir has been an island of communal harmony for ages, till
outsiders spoiled the paradise. That outside influence has to be
neutralized, in whatever shape or form, for Kashmir to turn again into a
Paradise on earth.  *

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*Times of India’s separate agenda of demonizing Muslims and Islam keeps
popping up, as the editors and owners seems to have built up a constituency
that thrives on hate and division. Their communal management of public
issues vital to the integrity and security, by bringing in extraneous
divisive misinformation to their extensive readership of the nation, needs
to be condemned and checked with appropriate actions by the government in
the best interest of the country.*

*Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai*

*ghulammuhamm…@gmail.com*

*<http://www.ghulammuhammed.blogspot.com>*

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RAW: The Dangerous Wolf; Threat To World Peace!

Brig Asif Haroon Raja

Cold Blooded Wolf

It is now an established fact that no South Asian state has ever indulged in covert operations or cross border terrorism against its neighbors. The only culprit is India which resorts to this evil practice against all its neighbors, be it Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Maldives, Bhutan, China and Myanmar. It has dovetailed clandestine operations into its war strategy to apply it against its foes during peace time for harassment, intimidation and blackmailing purposes and for weakening them from within. Afghanistan has been used by Russia and India to raise the bogey of Pashtunistan, render support to Pakistani runaways and rebels and to launch covert operations against Pakistan. Karzai has belatedly assured Pakistan that it would not allow its soil against Pakistan. Hopefully he sticks to his commitment. Marching orders given by Karzai to his intelligence chief and interior minister, both venomously anti-Pakistan and favorites of Washington are positive signs though some more steps are needed to scatter away clouds of distrust built over nine years.

The US military has starting packing its bags to wind up its business in Afghanistan and go home starting July 2011. The US and Karzai’s tilt towards Islamabad are ominous developments for India vying to have complete sway over Afghan affairs after the departure of coalition forces. The entire Indian leadership is in a state of depression. Its spin doctors are at a loss but are still scratching their heads how to retrieve the situation. Indians are feeling out of place since they are akin to traits of a scorpion which stings compulsively.

Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and Home Minister Chidambaram were here in Islamabad to renew talks. An Indo-Pak talk is a drama staged by India at the behest of USA. India loses all and gains nothing out of composite dialogue, which she had purposely stalled after Mumbai attacks. She stubbornly clung to her one-point agenda of no talks without Pakistan tackling India’s concerns about terrorism. After intense pressure from USA, stuck in Afghanistan and urgently requiring Pakistan’s services for a bailout, India has reluctantly relented and agreed to resume talks. However, the entire focus of talks was on terrorism. Chronic issues such as Kashmir dispute, Siachin and Sir Creek problems, water problem, RAW’s support to terrorists in Balochistan and in FATA were skipped. India wants solution to Kashmir as suggested by former President Gen Musharraf. It had been mutually decided to sideline UN resolutions on Kashmir, convert Line of Control (LoC) into soft border and to put the dispute in cold freezer as had been done during Simla Agreement in 1973.

But for lawyers movement which weakened Musharraf, the sellout plan would have been implemented in 2008. It is for this reason that Indian leaders fondly remember Musharraf and pray for his return. President Zardari was also in favor of this plan as was evident from several statements he had made on Kashmir and the so-called ‘good news’ he wanted to give to the nation. Had the Army under Gen Kayani not taken a firm stand and had Zardari not lost his reputation and credibility, he would have given a go ahead signal to the plan. Zardari’s inability to open up nuclear program for US and IAEA inspection, bring ISI under Interior Ministry and to implement Indian dictated Kashmir solution has disappointed USA and India. To twist his arm, he is off and on subjected to barrage of vilification campaign, most of which is based on facts.

Pakistan had been led up the garden path by India through much hyped composite dialogue in early 2004. It was pledged that all issues including Kashmir would be resolved through dialogue. Four rounds of talks were held but nothing concrete came out of the meetings. While Pakistan lost a lot, India gained a lot. Under the garb of friendship, India successfully completed fencing of LoC, defanged armed resistance in Held Kashmir, redirected all Jihadi outfits towards Pakistan, made Balochistan, FATA and large parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa restive, lowered the image of Pak Army and other institutions through propaganda campaign, consolidated tentacles of RAW within Pakistan, disturbed law and order situation, built several dams over rivers Chenab, Jhelum and Indus and reduced flow of water into Pakistan. India not only enhanced its presence in Afghanistan significantly but also spread hatred amongst Afghans against Pakistan to keep the two neighbors perpetually hostile to each other. Through these acts, it impoverished the economy of Pakistan.

While preaching friendship, Indian military feverishly built up its strength and former Indian chief Gen Kapoor hurled threats of Cold Start and limited war under a nuclear overhang. Pakistan quietly digested all the insults and harms inflicted upon the body of Pakistan under the skewed policy of appeasement and under a misperception that Kashmir issue would be resolved. In return, India didn’t budge an inch over any of the disputes and continued to maintain its pre-2004 rigid stance on all issues. It showed its ugly face after Mumbai carnage and reverted to its old policy of antagonism.

Having gained on all fronts, India is unprepared to dole out any concession to Pakistan. It still wants more from Pakistan. It wants Pakistan not to oppose its key role in Afghanistan, its right for a land route to Afghanistan via Wagah, and its membership to UNSC. It also wants Punjab based banned Jihadi groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jamat-ud-Dawa, Jaish Mohammad and Sipah-Sahaba to be crushed and Muredke religious centre to be dismantled. India is keen to extend physical support to help Pak security forces to tackle these outfits. Punjab being the only stable province, it has become an eyesore for India and it desperately wants its destabilization. The likes of Salman Taseer and RAW sponsored Tehrik-e-Taliban are helping India in its nefarious designs.

RAW is among the leading terrorist organization which is bleeding South Asia but surprisingly no finger has ever been raised on it. The US and western think tanks and newspapers never tire of concocting stories against ISI but see RAW, Mossad and CIA chaste and spotless. This is because they are birds of same feather and are flocking together in pursuit of common objectives.

Pakistan and other South Asian countries have remained the victims of intrigues and conspiracies of India for the last 63 years. It pretends to be well meaning and friendly but it always carries a dagger under its armpit and strikes whenever opportunity comes its way. It is principally responsible for impeding the growth of SAARC because of its habit of hegemony and selfishness. It is high time for SAARC countries minus India to get together and collectively combat the Indian menace. Awareness drive should be initiated by Pakistan to expose true face of India.

I propose immediate establishment of a joint intelligence centre at Islamabad or Colombo on the pattern of the one working in Jabal-al-Siraj, north of Kabul. Both are well trained in the art of counter terrorism and have successfully fought RAW sponsored terrorism. The new intelligence setup should have tentacles in all the affected South Asian countries to share intelligence and monitor activities of home based and foreign based terrorists, spies and double agents. Assistance of China may be sought or it may be co-opted. Intelligence Centre should maintain close liaison with intelligence agencies of selected Muslim states which follow independent foreign policies and are not close to India. Intelligence can be exchanged with CIA, FBI and MI-6 prudently and on need basis only.

Besides, a joint media and publicity cell should be opened to counter Indo-US-Israeli propaganda. In addition, each country should raise a counter terrorism force fully equipped with requisite firepower, mobility and technology superior to what the terrorists possess to be able to dismantle terrorist networks, disrupt supply routes and sources of funding. Collective efforts should be made to beat RAW in its own game.

The writer is a security and defence analyst and author of several books. He is a regular writer for www.opinion- maker.org His articles are profusely commented upon in international newspapers/ websites.

Source: http://opinion- maker.org/ 2010/06/raw- the-danderous- wolf-threat- to-world- peace/

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Successful Protest Demonstration Regarding Minority Scholarships at Azad Maidan by SIO 

 
Mumbai, June 19[Bismillahnews-SIO Press Release]: Mumbai Division of the Students Islamic Organisation of India organized a successful protest demonstration today at Azad Maidan to protest against the lethargic and step-motherly approach of the State Government. Students from every nook and corners of Mumbai gathered here in large numbers to express their anger against Govt.

“Due to the lethargic attitude of the Congress-NCP government and the callous attitude of the authorities towards minorities, the amount of Rs 15 Crore which is transferred from central Government for clear sanctioned applications, is still lying in the Bank of Maharashtra” said Br. ADIL [PR secretary SIO Maharashtra] he was speaking to Media On this occasion

Post Demonstration a delegation of SIO along with CID and Police met Joint Director of Higher Education Mr. Shantikumar Gupta and explained him the total scenario and nuisance going on within education department. A memorandum was submitted on this occasion.[photo attached] .He assured that certainly some action will be taken in Monday 21 June meet at Pune.

The ISSUE
The Central Government had allocated 64,400 scholarships for the students of minority communities in Maharashtra under the post-matric scholarship scheme for the year 2009-10. Due to improper and poor publicity of the scheme by the Government of Maharashtra, only 24,064 applications were received by the administration. After due verification and scrutiny of the applications by the Directorate of Higher Education the Data of the students as well as proposal was sent to the Ministry of Minority Affairs, GoI. Later, the Central Government cleared Rs 15 crore for the scheme in the state. Ideally and legally, the respective amounts should have been transferred to the students by the month of April 2010. But due to the lethargic attitude of the Congress-NCP government and the callous attitude of the authorities towards minorities, the amount of Rs 15 crore is still lying in the Bank of Maharashtra.
 
The information from the Directorate of Higher Education has revealed that the Director of Higher Education has constituted an inquiry committee for cross checking the students’ details, despite the fact that the Central Government had cleared the data. The committee has also reduced the scholarship amount to the students awarded scholarships. The amount of scholarship has been reduced to just Rs 1400 despite the fact that the central government had approved Rs 7,000 to the same students. This unconstitutional and illegal interference by the Director shows bias towards the minorities. Also, the committee has created a difference of over Rs 3 crores in the funds received from the Central Government. This again proves the ill intentions of the authorities. Does this mean that the proposal submitted by the Director of Higher Education to the Central Government was fake?
 
The same scheme has been successfully implemented in the states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh which are comparatively considered to be backward states. Why has the scheme been made unsuccessful in the state of Maharashtra?
SIO Demands
Students Islamic Organization of India demands that the Government makes a free and fair inquiry into the matter and arrest and prosecute the officials incharge who are misusing their positions and taking unconstitutional and illegal steps.  Also the list of students, to whom the scholarship has been approved by the Central Government, be made public and the amount received from the Central Government be transferred to the Students/colleges immediately. Complete fees of the professional courses be reimbursed without any delay and also the Remaining Amount of the previous two years be paid to the students.
 
If the demands are not given a serious consideration, then the organization will be forced to take the legal course of action.

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Tearing through prejudice By Syeda Hameed - Indian Express
*The writer is a member of the Planning Commission of India 

The Humpty Dumpty pair of Balakrishnan and Wajihuddin of TOI had great fall.
Their storm in the teacup fizzled out. Even the so-called liberals could see
through their vicious games and English media rose to the occasion with more
considered editorials and  articles shredding the headline grabbing
conspiracy to sow seeds of division in the ranks of Indian Muslims.

The following article by a confirmed liberal, Syeda Hameed, delving deep
into the whole gimmickry of media manipulation, had come out with insights
into what was the real worth of Deoband fatwas and how Deoband was hounded
for the ‘crime’ it has not committed. I would think, there is a fit case of
defamation on merits against TOI and the two mischief-mongers, which Deoband
should proceed with in the courts of law, so that TOI should be more careful
in future and refrain from committing deliberate campaign of vilification
and division between communities.

Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Tearing-through-prejudice/619751

<http://www.indianexpress.com/>

Tearing through prejudice
*Syeda Hameed <http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/syedahameed/>**
**Tags : Darul Uloom
Deoband<http://www.indianexpress.com/news/tearing-through-prejudice/619751/0>
, Sharia<http://www.indianexpress.com/news/tearing-through-prejudice/619751/0>
**Posted: Mon May 17 2010, 02:53 hrs***

The normal reaction of “liberal” Muslims — whatever the term means — would
be to demolish the argument of Darul Uloom with counter arguments from the
Quran, Hadith and Sunnah. But this fatwa was so problematic that I decided
to investigate its trajectory by going to the source. I found that the
Department of Darul Uloom that issues the fatwas is called Darul Ifta. It
has a website which displays lists of questions people ask clerics in their
capacity as religious scholars. The questions come from those who are
religiously inclined or suffering from undue angst. They read much like
questions to agony aunts and their clones in popular magazines. And the
answers are much like the magazine answers — the opinion of clergymen from
the Department of Fatwas.

*The exchange that was posted on the website was as follows:*

Question: Asalam Aleikum. Can Muslim women in India do government or private
jobs? Shall their salary be “halal” or “haram”?

Answer: It is unlawful for Muslim women to do a job in the government or
private sector, where men and women work together and women have to talk to
men frankly and without a veil. (But) Allah knows best.

This is the beginning, end and sum total of the answer. There is no answer
to the question of salary being halal or haram. In fact the clergyman is
silent on this but the reporters are not. The attempt here is nothing but to
create a sensation. The fact is that the fatwa ends with Allah knows best.
This, I feel, is a disclaimer, meaning, “This is my opinion. You decide for
yourself because Allah knows best.” Later Darul Uloom issued a statement
denying the fatwa and asserting that they had only given an opinion, but the
damage was done. Stereotypes were reaffirmed in the minds of many unthinking
readers.

The fatwa itself is problematic. Its pronouncement that women should be
“properly covered” at the workplace is indefensible. For many of us, it
violates Muslim women’s rights to bodily integrity, privacy, freedom of
choice. It is much like the ban on veiling in other jurisdictions. For many
of us, it is equally coercive and violative of the rights of Muslim women.

I have read and understood Islam from the injunctions of the Quran and the
writings of Maulana Altaf Hussain Hali and Maulana Abul Kamal Azad. In that
light, this fatwa contravenes the deeply gendered spirit of Islam as do many
other fatwas uploaded on the Darul Uloom website. I can engage with the
scholars of Darul Uloom, refute their views and prove the point by quoting
my rich cultural history, examples from the life of the Prophet, from his
wife Hazrat Khatija, his daughter Hazrat Fatima, his grand daughters Zainab
and Kulsum. But I will do it in my own time. I will not enter a debate with
Deoband on women’s rights because of misrepresented reports.

The point about many media reports is that they assume that Islam (and other
Semitic religions) are tied to the text, hence more regimented. They
attribute the liberals’ attraction to Sufism to its eclecticism and
non-textual nature. They regard Islam as a monolith and make simplistic and
dangerous deductions. By calling Darul Uloom the “self appointed guardian
for Indian Muslims”, they demolish, in one stroke, the different schools in
Islam — Sunnis, Shias, Deobandis, Barelvis. The beauty of Islam is that it
allows a thousand flowers to bloom. It allows human beings to understand and
practice Islam by their own light. The Quranic injunction is that Allah is
closer to you than your shehrug (jugular vein). Ponder the meaning for a
moment.

For most of us perfunctory readers, a report such as this escapes scrutiny
as we fly with the headlines. It gives grist to the mill of Muslim bashers.
The fact is that Muslim women, despite the declaration that it is “unlawful”
for them to work with men, will continue to go to work. Muslim men, those
that need to, will still live off their earnings. Allah knows best!

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Irresponsible and Unreasonable reporting by "The Times of India" and Urdu Dailies "Sahafat" and "Inquilaab" 

[ Bismillahnews 14th May 2010:New Delhi] Its shamefully shameful after publishing an article with out YOGINDER SIKANDS consent as claimed by him in a post to a group The Times of India provides further proof of its saffronised reporting and embedded Journalism by doing mischievious story  Urdu press tears into latest fatwa . Urdu columnists and opinion makers are outraged and shocked beyond belief at the Irresponsible Editorials on hearsay by Inquilaab[Jagran Group] and Sahafat [Lucknow based Narain Dutt Tiwari and BJP supported Shia Newspaper with its Delhi,Lucknow,Dehradun and Mumbai editions lately launched with mysterious Iranian resouces of its proprietor Amaan Abbas and his Editor Shuja a close advisor to Rahul Gandhi and Congress aspirant from the shia dominant Amroha Parliamentary Constituency of Uttarpradesh] for writing against Deoband Fatwa and Ulema’s with out even checking / seeing the Fatwa like all other Non- Urdu press quoted report by Non-Urdu News Agencies. The below report by Kashif ul Huda in this matter must be an eye opener for all. We are also reproducing comments of Janab Ghulam Muhammed of Mumbai a senior media person -*Times of India Does it Again – VIII***
*The Times of India is on the rampage again. Tired of presenting its Front
Page as the prime repository of news all the evils of the corruption and
deep fissures in Indian politics and society, it has decided to bring in the
Muslims in the focus to divert the attention of its harried readership to
savour the rich store of inanities that its so-called progressives,
including S. Balakrishnan and M. Wajihuddin, can dish out as quickly as any
fast food in the now news-hungry land that has develop the acquired taste,
nay the addiction to now feed on the sleaze and filth.*
*The distortion, disinformation and misinformation is deliberate and verging
on criminal when Times of India owners allow its staff to sow seeds of
dissension, division and strife in the community. While on the one side, it
is burning midnight oil to feed the flames of ‘Asha ke deep’, making up
friends with Pakistan, it has gone on to attack Sharia laws with its typical
treatment of news in headlines, that has no bearing to the truth. This
double dealing newsmaking can only earn deep resentment in 200 million
Muslims of India, for deliberate provocation of India’s prime newspaper to
take on the supposed might of the Mullahs, by distorted representation of
Islam to open it to public derision and scorn.*
*It would have been fitness of objective reporting, if Times of India, had
published the full scan of the Deoband fatwa, which according to TOI report
headline has declared — Women’s earnings Haram. Apparently TOI headline is
being used by its editors without full knowledge of what the word ‘Haram’
connotes in Sharia. It merely exposes the open ignorance of the TOI staff,
who have been allowed to frame headlines to inflame emotions and outrage
among Muslims of India. The whole fatwa needs lots of context to be
available for such mischievous and provocative headline. TOI’s S.
Balakrishnan himself uses the same word ‘Haram’ in the next report on inside
pages as describing proximity between males and females in a confined space,
that can lead to unwanted consequences. Islamic Sharia from Malaysia to
Saudi Arabia being Muslim dominated states; promote the same norms of Sharia
that Deoband is plainly expounding. Deoband is not coming out with anything
new or of its own exclusive authorship and copyright. The motive behind such
attacks on Deoband, Sharia and Muslim society is to stop their commanding
role in the newly emerging political clout of the Muslim voters that
practically all political parties at all level are fully apprehensive of and
have set the commercially handicapped mainstream media to start a campaign
of distortion, disinformation and division among the Muslims. Muslims are
neither uninformed of such Machiavellian shenanigans, nor are prepared to
let barking dogs keep on barking. The quotes of harebrained women scholars
who may be academically informed but woefully ignorant of the conspiracies
hatched against Indian Muslims and therefore can only earn widespread
derision and scorn for their almost automatic and programmed intervention in
the national debate without any overall societal mandate.*
*India** of today is not free of foreign domination and investor money rules
the roost. The western capitalist and socialist model that promote
consumerism have not gone full circle to fully grasp the difference between
Sharia model of preferring distinct roles of men and women and family life
in overall economic system. Those who are of open mind, can easily make out
how the West is suffering from so many ills of the new society, geared to
‘women’s liberation’ while throwing them to wolves who would rather feed on
their earnings and have comfortable lives. The kind of traumas that single
women suffer in the western countries have yet to get any sympathy from
these progressive brigades. The trafficking of women, the lonely lives of
women, the childless misery of whole generations forced to go for adoption
and artificial insemination and the most horrible and immoral route of
surrogate pregnancies, are yet to get the attention of social reformers in
right earnest. Is it not strange an India that should be rightly proud of
its traditions, should be so brain-washed that nothing seems to be odd when
gay Israelis are descending on our poor women and rent their bodies for
pittances, so that they can live their immoral lives with the help of our
impoverished womanhood. The national and nationalist media is silent. It has
more urgent business to tackle Mullahs first.*  
Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai
ghulammuhamm…@gmail.com
www.GhulamMuhammed.Blogspot.com

 
By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net

Everybody loves a bad fatwa. And why not? It fills column space for newpapers; It brings in viewers for Television channels; it plays into the image of Muslims as a backward community for communalists; and it gives activists a chance to reinforce their secular credentials. Never mind that this fatwa will not change the lives of millions of Muslims and text of the fatwa could be not what has been reported or maybe the said fatwa doesn’t even exist. 

Fatwa is nothing but a religious opinion from a religious scholar to a question asked by a Muslim on a particular situation that he or she may be facing at the time or might face in future and doesn’t know what should be an appropriate way to act in light of Islamic teachings. A mufti then issues a fatwa or opinion based on his understanding of the question and Islam. Just as different medical doctors will have a difference of opinion regarding a diagnosis and treatment plan, it is common for different muftis to give different opinion for the same question. 

Media circus

At least once every year, on a slow news day, some enterprising journalist finds a fatwa that will fit the stereotype about Muslims being backward or Muslim scholars being ignorant or out of touch with the real world or all of the above reasons, and will publish a news story based on this ‘prized’ fatwa. Let’s take the example of the fatwa issued by Darul Uloom Deoband that is making the round in news cycles this week. 

The fatwa in question was issued more than a month ago and one can ask the question, why is there a sudden interest by the media in this particular fatwa? A fatwa that is only a sentence long has had numerous newspaper column space and hours of airtime devoted to it. The media bosses have decided that it is an important fatwa because it has all the right keywords to keep the  attention of readers & viewers, and therefore will keep a flow of revenue coming in. 

One has to question the motive of the major media regarding the publicizing of a fatwa. There is more to this than meets the eye when the Indian media that is obsessed with breaking news and exclusives these days picks up a fatwa that was issued more than a month ago. Within 24 hours of this news being flashed on NDTV on May 11th, 2010, all major media networks of India had reported it. And every new report had added information that was not even there. Let’s look at the fatwa first.  

Question number 21031 ((http://darulifta- deoband.org/ viewfatwa. jsp?ID=21031) to Darul Ifta (house of fatwas) of Darul Uloom Deoband asked by someone in India states: “Asalamu-Alikum: Can muslim women in india do Govt. or Pvt. Jobs? Shall their salary be Halal or Haram or Prohibited?” Answer published on April 4th, 2010 simply answers it as: “It is unlawful for Muslim women to do job in government or private institutions where men and women work together and women have to talk with [to] men frankly and without veil.” 

Headlines

Now let’s look at some of the headlines of news reports about this fatwa:

Fatwa against working Muslim women: NDTV

Fatwa to working Muslim women: Don’t talk to male colleagues: NDTV

Women’s earnings haram, says Deoband: The Times of India [Print edition]

Deoband fatwa: It’s illegal for women to work, support family: The Times of India [Online]

Don’t talk to male colleagues: Darul Uloom’s fatwa to all working women: DNA

Muslim women can’t work: Deoband: Samay Live

Darul Uloom says Muslim women can’t work in public: India Today

Now, fatwa against working women: Indian Express

Women Working with Men Un-Islamic: Deoband: Outlook

Fatwa against men-women proximity at workplace: Zee News

In case you ever wondered why there isnt a successful supermarket tabloid in India, here is your answer. There is no need for one because major media houses in India do that job very well.    

Fatwa-checking

Now let’s look at the fatwa again. It doesn’t talk about a woman’s earnings being haram or unlawful, Islamically speaking. It also not talking about whether women can work or not, rather it is a learned scholar giving his opinion that Islamically it will be unlawful for a Muslim women only if she is in a job that will require her to speak to men "frankly and without veil." I am not sure what mufti sahib meant with the "speaking frankly" phrase, but there is no ruling saying women cannot work or that their earning is haram. This did not stop media houses from publishing news report after news report with sensational headlines that had nothing to do the with the original fatwa. 

A simple fact-checking, if Indian media had that system, would have clarified the matter and this fatwa would have remained a non-news. However, this was not to be. Why should anyone bother with minor annoyance when there are pages and airtime to be filled without impunity. 

Television channels went a step further and dug up old fatwas dating back to 2005 and 2006 to run on the screens when they were talking about this issue. It is anyone’s guess what issues those fatwas displayed on-screen would have dealt with. We can’t blame readers and viewers when they see a conspiracy in all this. 

Tabassum Khan who is an Assistant Professor of  Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside argues that the media jumps on these issues because "It further tatters the already tarnished image of the Muslims." And when there is not enough facts to go around they simply add fiction to make it sound more interesting.

Fatwas, good or bad, have only limited public appeal and influence. Sadia Khanam, a journalist with The Eastern Post in Kolkata, says, "I don’t encounter many situations where I need to seek the guidance of a fatwa." And maybe it will sound strange to journalists with a very low image of Muslim women, Khanam adds, "It depends on my personal understanding to decide which fatwa can be held correct and followed."

And Sadia is not alone in this, Tabassum Khan has done extensive research on the Muslim youth of New Delhi and she says that "The women paid little attention [to fatwas], but among the young men there were a few who gave importance to these fatwas. But they were isolated and few and far in between in numbers." 

So, why are major media houses ready to give up prime space and time for a fatwa that the majority of Muslims pay little attention to? "Mainstream media has no stake in the image of Muslims. They are in the business of enforcing and perpetuating stereotypes. So, if a maulvi works to tatter the already tarnished image, they are the first to give him importance and project his view as the view of the entire community," explains Khan.   

Measured response  
  
Darul Uloom Deoband did the right thing by issuing a denial but the damage had already been done. So how should Muslims respond in situations like these? First of all, those who are activists, community leaders, and commentators, and first lines of contact for these journalists who are seeking them for opinions, need to pay more attention to the story. They need to realize that they don’t need to respond to all media queries. If they do decide to respond, even if it is going to be along predictable lines, they need to see the source of the story. In this case, it would have been to see the original fatwa.  

For half an hour, Shazia Ilmi, Sadia Dehlvi, and Kamal Farooqui debated on this topic on Sagarika Ghose’s program "Face The Nation" on CNN-IBN on Wednesday. Strangely, none of them had actually even read the original fatwa. Based on other hearsay news reports, this only served the purpose of keeping untainted the image of Muslims as a monolith community out-of-touch- with-the- modern-world, and women who need to be rescued. Of course, interest of Muslim women is the least of the concerns of the Indian media who are competing for all-important ratings.   

One thing is clear that Muslims have no say or control over the media’s actions, but that doesn’t mean that they have to be passive. Polite but firm emails should be sent to reporters and their editors. Muslim community organizations should send a letter on their official letter-heads to the editors and seek meetings with the editorial staff. In these meetings, examples of serious lapses by media when reporting on issues related to Muslims should be brought to their attention.  

Media is not a one-way street and they don’t exist in vacuum. In this day and age, readers and viewers have much more power than anyone would like to acknowledge. This power should be used to demand correct and factual coverage. At the same time Muslims need to take these kinds of episodes as opportunity to engage with their non-Muslim colleagues and friends to explain Islam and Muslim practices. 

Muslim religious leadership is not above criticism but they need to be engaged to develop a new kind of thinking that takes what Islam has to offer and apply it to the modern world. Religious scholars need to offer solutions to the problems associated with modern life without dragging the whole community to a medieval view of the religion and the world. For this to happen both university-educated and madrasa-educated Muslims need to interact and engage each other.   

As Prof. Tabassum Khan rightly states, "It is important for middle-class Muslims to become more vocal and not let uninformed and biased opinions be representative of the community."  
  
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Muslim becoming the Prime Minister of this country is like day dreaming / distant dream.

By Afzal Ahmad Khan

I have been keenly going through the discussions on this subject about the recent visit of Mr. Rahul Gandhi to AMU.  This is not only the question of the empowerment of the Muslims of this country but is a national problem because no country in the world can hope to progress if it leaves behind its more than 150 million population to struggle with illiteracy, poverty and hunger. As a matter of fact, the foundation of disempowerment of Muslims was laid way back in 1950 when in criminal violation of our secular constitution, the facility of reservation to the Muslim Schedule Castes (SCs)  given by the British along with the Hindu co-professionals through the Government of India Act 1935, was withdrawn by the President of free India through his Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950^[2]. Initially the facility of reservation was restricted to the followers of Hindu religion only but Sikhs and Buddhists were included later on but Muslims and Christians still remain secluded. Similarly, the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950 provided the facility of reservation to the Scheduled Tribes, which is almost non-existent among the Muslims. These orders have created the following situation in Parliament and Assemblies

                                                                  (Source- Compiled from the data of Election Commission of India)

Serial No.	Name of the House	Number of seats in the House as constituted in 2004 on the basis of the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 1976 as amended from time to time										Number of seats in the House as subsequently constituted as per the  Delimitation of Parliamentary and  Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008
		Total Number of  Seats in the House	General		Reserved							Total  Number of  Seats in the House		General			Reserved
					SCs		STs		Total								SCs	STs			Total
I.	Parliament	543	423		75		45		120			543		412			84	47			131
II.	Legislative  Assembly	4120	3077		570		473		1043			4120		2893			672	555			1227

        Explanatory Note

I.     Parliament  

a.   Muslims and Christians both are barred from contesting all the 84 seats reserved for SCs.

b.   Muslims cannot contest against 46 seats reserved for STs because of almost non-existent STs among them. They can contest only one seat (Lakshdweep) out of the total 47 reserved for STs.

c.   Thus, Muslims can contest for only 413 (76%) seats against a total strength of 543 seats.

II.   Legislative Assembly

a.   Muslims and Christians both are barred from contesting all the 672 seats reserved for SCs.

b.   Muslims cannot contest against almost all the 555 seats reserved for STs because of almost non-existent STs among them.

c.   Thus, Muslims can contest for only 2893 (70%) seats against a total combined strength of 4109 seats of all the Legislative Assemblies of the country.

     Similarly, following is the condition of Muslims in Government Employments and Educational Institutions

2.   Employments       (Source- Page 165,167,168, 172,173  Report of Sachar Committee)

         i.      IAS                                       3%      

        ii.      IFS                                     1.8%   

                 iii.     IPS                                        4%    

       iv. Indian Railways                      4.5 % Almost all (98.7%) of them are positioned at Lower levels

       v.       Security agencies                     4%   

      vi.       Education Department             6.5% 

      vii.       Home Department                   7.5%

     viii.       Constables                               6%   

                ix.       Health Department                   4.4% 

3.   Education

   a.  In the premier colleges of the country   (Pg 69)

               i. Under-Graduate                        4%     only one out of the 25 students

               ii. Post-Graduate                           2%      only one out of the 50 students

          b.  In the Professionals Institutions             (Pg 68 - 69)

                i. IIMs                                           1.3%

                ii. IITs                                            3.3%

 

       Therefore a Muslim becoming the Prime Minister of this country is like day dreaming / distant dream. Moreover, probably this will not serve any purpose because; the experience says that the government sponsored atrocities against Muslims have rarely been seriously raised at proper forum by the so-called Muslim Leadership. It is always in their mind that even the rightful demands for Muslims as guaranteed in our constitution will label them as communal and they will lose their non-Muslim votes.  Though during elections, while appealing to Muslims to vote in their favor, they presented themselves as their Messiah and sweared to get justice for them in every walk of life.  But, once elected they forget every thing and apart from their personal gains, they are merely worried about their secular credentials which in their opinion ensures their loyalty to their party and government. Had they raised the issue at proper forum, and tried to undo the injustice being done not to a Muslim, but to the citizens of this country, that too in criminal violation of secular constitution, probably the situation would have not been as bad as it is today.

         In my opinion, no undue favor or special status for Muslims is required for this purpose. In fact all these problems have been created due to encroachments in our original constitution by the Governments for their political gains. The sheer application of our original constitution, as passed by our Constituent Assembly on November 26, 1949 and adopted on January 26, 1950, in its true letter and spirit, with all fairness, sincerity and honesty will solve the problem. Therefore, we can request every politician and his political party not for a Muslim Prime Minister but for honest enforcement of our constitution in its true letter and sprit. And this is the rightful claim of every citizen of the country irrespective of his/her religion.

Afzal Ahmad Khan PUC  1963, Lucknow,   INDIA +91- 522 - 2209066,  +91- 9415151983

       I wrote the following Article which was published in English and Urdu (translated)   Magazine . Here it is reproduced .

 

Who is Responsible for the Poor Representation of Muslims?

       Since our Independence, the social, economic and educational conditions of Muslims of the country have gone down so drastically that now it has come at the level of the Schedule Castes or even below them. In the opinion of the politicians, some individuals or NGOs, the Muslims are themselves responsible for this pathetic condition of the community.  Because, instead of joining the National Mainstream and contributing in country’s development so that they could have also shared its benefit, they preferred to remain aloof and secluded not only from National Mainstream but also from society.  However, if the sequences of developments after the Partition of the Country are analyzed minutely the facts, which emerge, are just opposite to these allegations. Probably every possible effort was made to ensure that the Muslims remain far too behind in every field of progress by officially blocking their entry everywhere, like elected bodies, employments, educational institutions etc. to name a few, and for this hopeless condition of Muslims, the Governments of the country since our independence are solely responsible.

  After the partition of the country, most of the elite class of the Muslims migrated to Pakistan for greener pasture. Therefore, the Muslims who did not align with the then Muslim League and preferred to live in India instead of migrating to Pakistan, were not only illiterate and poor but also a very depressed, secluded and shattered lot and their social educational and economic status was almost at par with downtrodden like SCs or even worse than them. Their conditions were ideally suited for the application of the Articles 14, 15 and 16 of our Constitution, which could have not only worked as a morale booster for them but would have restored their shattered confidence in the government and their governance after the horrible experience of partition of the country. But, this was not done. Instead, insult was added to their injury by forcing them to feel guilty of a sin (partition of the country) which they never committed. Not only this, even the facility of reservation to the Muslim Schedule Castes (SCs)  given by the British through the Government of India Act 1935 along with the Hindu co-professionals, was withdrawn by the President of free India through his Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950^[2]. It is important to mention here that after independence; even our Constituent Assembly has adopted the said act without any amendment on November 26, 1949.  It appears that after independence, our Secular Leadership was eagerly waiting for the enforcement of our own constitution so that they can immediately issue the said communal Presidential Order in clear violation of the decision of our Constituent Assembly. Probably that was the beginning of an unending chain of bias and discrimination against the Muslims of the country which is continuing even today with full vengeance and has left them struggling in the ruins of illiteracy, poverty and hunger.

 Though Muslim are underrepresented everywhere except in jails where they are far too ahead of the proportion of their population. They are there since years and in most of the cases, their trial has not even begun or is at a very primary stage. In majority of the cases, the courts did not find substantial evidence against them and they were acquitted but after years of illegal detention as was confirmed by a People’s Tribunal consisting of eminent personalities of national and international fame which heard the testimonies of Muslim accused of terrorism over the last two years in Hyderabad from August 22-24, 2008. Who and how will anyone compensate the victims and their families for the illegal action committed against them by the Government agencies.

      However, just as a sample survey, if the reasons for the poor representations of Muslims is analyzed only at three places, i.e.  Elected bodies, employment and education and its history traced since 1947, one will get a fair idea of the conspiracy hatched against the Muslims to block every path of progress for them.

1.   Elected Bodies

    The election of Parliament is over and there has been a lot of hype from various corners regarding the very low representation of Muslims in the Parliament. It is being argued that there are 543 seats in Parliament and according to 2001 census; the Muslim population in the country is 13.4% therefore the number of Muslims in Parliament should have been 13.4% of 543= 72.76 say 73. However, the actual number of Muslims in Parliament after 2009 election is 30 (41%) only and thus a short fall of 43 seats. During the arguments for this shortfall, many reasons like lack of genuine leadership among them, lack of unity and division of their votes, illiteracy and ignorance about the duties and rights in democratic system etc are mentioned. But, apart from others factors, one of the main reason, responsible for this shortfall are the two Presidential Orders “The Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950^[2]  and The Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950^[3]“ issued by the President of India under Article 341 of our constitution. While the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950^[2], issued in criminal violation of our Secular Constitution, restricted the facility of reservation to the followers of Hindu religion only, the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950^[3] provided the facility of reservation to the Scheduled Tribes, which is almost non-existent among Muslims except in some remote corners of country like Lakshdweep. Since the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950^[2]  deprived the benefits of Reservation to the Schedule Castes (SCs) of every religion except Hinduism, there were strong reactions against this injustice all over the country. While Sikhs and Buddhs reacted ferociously against the Orders, the Muslims were a very subdued lot due to the devastating after effects of the partition of our country. The strong resentment and violent protests by the Sikhs and Buddhs forced the Government for modifying the aforesaid Presidential Order. While the Sikhs were restored back in the list of SCs in the year 1956, the Buddhs were included in 1990. However, the discrimination on religious grounds under article 341 of our constitution still continues due to non-inclusion of Dalits professing Islam and Christianity in the list of SCs even though sixty years have passed.  

     The Muslim STs constitute only 0.25% of total STs Population of the country and most of them are inhabitants of Lakshdweep”. As per the 2001 Census, the SCs (Scheduled Castes also known as Dalits) and STs (Scheduled Tribes also known as Adivasis) together comprise over 24% of India’s population (SCs over 16% and STs over 8%).  Thus out of total reservation of around 24% for SCs and STs in the country, at present the Muslims who are constitutionally entitled to get the benefit of reservation is not even 0.1%, which is as good as none. Ironically, while Hindus, Sikhs and Budhs can constitutionally try for 100% (General+SCs+ STs) seats/vacancies, Muslims are entitled for 76% (General+Non- existent STs) only. Thus after the aforesaid Presidential Orders of 1950 and their amendments, the seats available for various categories in Parliament and Legislative Assemblies have been produced in the Table 1.1 & 1.2–

                                                       Table 1.1

      I.    STATES                      (Note- The Information has been copied from the Website of Election Commission of India)

Serial No.	Name of State/ Union Territory	SCHEDULE – I  Allocation of Seats in House of People                  Parliament						SCHEDULE– II Allocation of Seats in the                 Legislative Assemblies
		Number of seats in the House as constituted In 2004 on the basis of the Delimitation of  Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 1976 as amended from time to time			Number of seats in the House as subsequently constituted as per the Delimitation of Parliamentary  and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008			Number of seats in the House as constituted  In 2004 on the basis  of the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 1976 as amended  from time to time			Number of seats in the House as subsequently constituted as per the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008
		Total	SCs	STs	Total	SCs	STs	Total	SCs	STs	Total	SCs	STs
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
1	Andhra Pradesh	42	6	2	42	7	3	294	39	15	294	48
2	Arunachal Pradesh	2	–	–	2	–	–	60	–	59	60	–	59
3	Assam	14	1	2	14	1	2	126	8	16	126	8	16
4	Bihar	40	7	–	40	6	–	243	39	–	243	38	2
5	Chhattisgarh	11	2	4	11	1	4	90	10	34	90	10	29
6	Goa	2	–	–	2	–	–	40	1	–	40	1	–
7	Gujarat	26	2	4	26	2	4	182	13	26	182	13	27
8	Haryana	10	2	–	10	2	–	90	17	–	90.	17	–
9	Himachal Pradesh	4	1	–	4	1	–	68	16	3	See your Yahoo! Homepage.

 

Rahul Gandhi’s AMU Visit