Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen Party Celebrates its 50th Golden Jubilee Celebrations
All-India Majlis e Ittehadul Muslimeen President Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi adressing Party Workers and Media in MiM Party Office Darusalaam in Hyderabad.
Hyderabad, March 2 Majlis-e- Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM), a powerful Muslim political party in Andhra Pradesh, Sunday celebrated its golden jubilee. Party president Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi addressed a rally at Darussalam, the party headquarters, to mark the day.
- Mr Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi recalled the party’s struggle in 1950s when Muslims were passing through difficult times after "police action" against the erstwhile state of Hyderabad.He was referring to the operations in 1948 against the forces of Nizam, the ruler of the then Hyderabad state, to merge it with the Indian union.It was March 2, 1958 that MIM was revived with a new constitution.
- Salar-e-Millat, as Owaisi is popularly known among his followers, recalled that his father Moulana Abdul Wahid Owaisi accepted the mantle of leadership when the Muslims were facing a crisis after "losing everything during the police action and nobody dared to speak for the rights of Muslims". "MIM has set an example for the entire India. It not only achieved political power to force the successive governments to address the community’s concerns but also built a number of educational institutions and hospitals," he said.
- "MIM has one-point programme: the Muslims and Backward Classes should unite on a single political platform. People used to ridicule us when we called it All-India MIM. People used to ask where is the office. Today, I can tell them the biggest office for any party in the country is our party headquarters," he said amid thunderous applause by thousands of party workers.
- "We have done what others could not do. The number of Muslims is less in Andhra Pradesh when compared to Uttar Pradesh and other states, but our achievements show that numbers alone do not work and it is the determination which is required," said Owaisi, who represented Hyderabad Lok Sabha constituency for almost two decades.
- MIM Supremo, Mr Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi, said his Party was not against the formation of Telangana state but insisted that Hyderabad should be left. He also said Warangal would be ideal to become the State Capital of the proposed smaller state.
- MIM, which has mass support in the City of Hyderabad, has one MP and five members of state assembly from the capital. Mr Owaisi’s eldest son Asaduddin Owaisi is now representing Hyderabad parliamentary constituency while another son, Akabruddin Owaisi, is a legislator from Chandrayangutta assembly constituency and MiM Party Floor Leader in the Andhra Pradesh State Assembly.
