MiM Ex President Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi (Salar e Millat) Funeral Procession in Hyderabad

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Lakhs bid tearful adieu to MIM President Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi (Salar e Millat)

Praja Rajyam Party President Actor Chiranjeevi with AIMIM President & MP Barrister Asaduddin Owaisi.

Second Pic Lakhs of People at the Funeral Procession of the Late AIMIM President Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi (Salar e Millat) in Hyderabad.

Lakhs bid tearful adieu to AIMIM President Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi (Salar E Millat) .

Hyderabad: Senior Muslim leader, veteran Parliamentarian and Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen President Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi (Salar e Millat) was bid a tearful adieu by lakhs of his supporters on Tuesday when he was laid to rest at the Dargah Agha Dawood in Hyderabad.

The Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy led his cabinet colleagues in paying respect to 76 year old Mr. Owaisi, who expired on Monday after prolonged illness. Dr. Reddy, who cut short his visit to Delhi and returned Hyderabad today to attend the funeral, described Mr. Owaisi's death as a big loss to the state. "He was a very experienced politician and a man of masses who always fought for the welfare of the people", he said.

Politicians cutting across the party lines converged at the Darussalam, the headquarters of MIM to bid farewell to the leader who had dominated the politics of Hyderabad for almost fifty years. The AICC general secretary Veerappa Moily laid the wreath on behalf of the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi. He conveyed the condolence message to Asaduddin Owaisi, MIM's MP from Hyderabad and the new president of MIM.

Mufti Khaleel Ahmad, the head of Jamia Nizamia led the Namaz-e-Janaza, attended by more than lakh of mourners. Later he was laid to rest with full state honors.

Body of Salahuddin Owaisi was brought from his residence to MIM headquarters in a massive procession of thousands of supporters who were raising slogans of "Allah-o-Akbar" (God is Great). Owaisi's three sons Asaduddin Owaisi, MP, Akbaruddin Owaisi, MLA, and Burhanuddin Owaisi Chief Editor Etemaad Urdu Daily were among the pall bearers.

Such was the surge of the people to have the last glimpse of "Salar" as Owaisi was popularly known that the police had a very tough time in holding them back. Many old timers and personal acquaintances of Owaisi broke down.

The United State Consul General in Hyderabad Cornelis M Keur and the Iranian Consul General were among the dignitaries who attended the funeral. Earlier in the day the state director general of police SSP Yadav and Hyderabad police commissioner B Prasad Rao laid wreath on the body at Owaisi's residence and paid their respects.

Speaker K R Suresh Reddy, state Congress president D Srinivas, the state Home Minister K Jana Reddy, the secretaries of CPIM and CPI BV Raghavulu and K Narayana, Nava Telangana Praja Party president T Devender Goud, senior leaders of Telugu Desam and K Chandrashekar Rao of Telangana Rashtra Samiti were among those who attended the funeral. Film star turned politician and Praja Rajyam party president Chiranjeevi visited Owaisi's residence this morning and paid his respects.

"Mr. Owaisi was a powerful and a strong leader who strived to protect the culture and identity of Hyderabad and to solve the problems of Muslim minority. It is very difficult to find another leaders like him", Chiranjeevi said. However the leaders of the state BJP were conspicuous by their absence.Delegations of various Muslim organizations including Jamaat-e-Islami, Jamiatul Ulema, Jamiatul Mashaiq also attended the funeral.

The state government had declared a State holiday to the educational institutions and the government offices today as a mark of respect to Owaisi. Salahuddin Owaisi's political career spanning over half a century was extraordinary in the sense that he had started his career as a member of Hyderabad Municipal Corporation in 1958 and went on to become the member of Parliament. He was elected to Lok Sabha from Hyderabad for five straight terms. He also served as MLA for 23 years representing different constituencies of the city.

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.

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  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.
  
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  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.
  
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  "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.
  
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  "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.


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  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.
  
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  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.

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MiM Protests Nandigram Massacre in Parliament

Majlis e Ittehadul Muslimeen Party Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi Protested over the Barbaric Killings and the bloody recapture of Nandigram by armed CPM goons in Parliament .

Upper Castes Using Telangana for Political interests :MIM

Majlis e Ittehadul Muslimeen Party Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi Givng Speech

HYDERABAD : Majlis-Ittehadul- Muslimeen (MIM) MP from Hyderabad Asaduddin Owaisi has charged the influential upper castes with using the Telangana issue as an election affair to further their own political interests.

Speaking to newsmen at Karimnagar on Sunday, he alleged that the weaker sections comprising Backward Classes (BCs), Scheduled Classes Scheduled Tribes and minorities lost their voice in the "selfish politics" being pursued by three dominant upper castes (Velama, Reddy and Kamma) in the State.

The Telangana Praja Samiti merged in the Congress after winning about 10 MP seats on Telangana plank in the 70s, he noted. In an indirect reference to M. Satyanarayana Rao, the MIM MP said, "The present Karimnagar MLA won on the samiti ticket at that time. Of late, he is talking in a different language.".

"The weaker sections have no trust in the leadership of the upper castes. Telangana can be formed only if the weaker sections come into the forefront", he said. The Uttar Pradesh and Bihar experiments should be replicated here to ensure political empowerment of the weaker sections in the real sense, he suggested. The Telangana Rashtra Samiti has failed to give even a single ticket to the Muslims in the last Assembly elections, he pointed out.

"The Telugu Desam disturbed the political equilibrium in Telangana by giving tickets to people from other regions in Telangana in the past, Owaisi alleged.

Comparing West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the MIM leader alleged that Buddhadeb justified the heinous atrocities committed by the CPM activists on the hapless Muslim women and the dalits in Nandigram.

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MiM Submits Memorandum to SHRC Over Police Firing

MiM Member of Parliment Asadudin Owaisi Arguing with Police DIG (CID) Sandeep Shandilya over his Attempt to Move Crowds with Force in Hyderabad after Prayers in Mecca Masjid on Friday.

HYDERABAD: The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) will hold an inquiry on June 11 into the police firing in the old city after the Mecca Masjid bomb blast on May 18 that reportedly claimed five lives.

Majlis-e-Ittehadul-Muslimeen (MIM) MP Asaduddin Owaisi along with Partymen on Wednesday submitted a memorandum to the SHRC Chairman, B. Subhashan Reddy, here on Thursday urging him to take up a full-fledged inquiry into the matter. Mr. Owaisi in his memorandum described police action as `unwarranted' and `unprovoked' adding that the firing was ordered without following due procedures.'There was absolutely no need for police firing. Not a single policeman was injured. There was no loss to property. Unnecessarily five innocent people have lost their lives and four others are injured.

The MIM leader submitted an account outlining the conditions in which five persons were killed while another eight persons were injured in the police firing. "Police opened indiscriminate firing on innocent people who started running towards Shalibanda after coming out of the mosque," he said.

MIM party workers who interacted with the media after meeting the SHRC Chairman pointed out that Self Loading Rifles were used in the firing. "SLRs are only used to combat terrorists or naxalites and not common people," Mr Owaisi said. SHRC Chairman B. Subhashan Reddy informed that they would wait for the report from Commissioner of Police and Hyderabad District Collector before reaching any conclusion. Mr. Reddy informed that the notice was served on the Commissioner of Police seeking explanation for reasons behind the police firing.

MiM Floor Leader Akbaruddin Owaisi Protest inside Mecca Masjid on Police Firing on Protestors

MiM Leader Akbaruddin Owaisi Protesting Against Police Firing

MIM Stages Protest at Andhra Pradesh Police Headquarters

MiM MP Asaduddin Owaisi Speaking to Press Reporters in Hyderabad

Hyderabad: The Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM), a party with a large following in Hyderabad, Sunday staged a protest in front of the Andhra Pradesh police headquarters demanding immediate suspension of the police officials responsible for firing after Friday's bomb blast at the historic Mecca Masjid.

Led by party leader and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi, MIM activists staged a sit-in in front of the office of Director General of Police (DGP) in Saifabad, throwing traffic out of gear in the heart of the city.

Tension prevailed for some time as the activists, who were carrying black and green flags, tried to barge into the high-security office, abutting the state legislative assembly building. They shouted slogans against police and set afire an effigy DGP M.A. Basith.

The MiM MP demanded that the government immediately order an inquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the bomb blast and the police firing and suspension of officials for opening fire. The 17th-century Mecca Masjid, near the city's famous landmark of Charminar, was targeted with a powerful blast Friday afternoon. Soon after that, police had fired on a protesting mob to quell violence.

Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy said Saturday that 11 people were killed in the mosque blast, while five died in police firing.On Saturday night, the police chief had clarified that nine people died in the blast and five in firing.

Owaisi, however, said 10 people died in police firing and seven in the blast. Basith had initially denied police firing and claimed that only rubber bullets were fired. During a meeting called by Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil here Saturday, the DGP had defended the police action.'We want an immediate CBI inquiry and immediate suspension of guilty officers and if these demands are not met then there is no difference between the governments of Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat,' said Owaisi, whose party is an ally of the ruling Congress.

The firing was unprovoked. Some policemen deliberately targeted protesters and shot them in their chests,' alleged the MP.

Akbaruddin Owaisi MiM Floor Leader in the state assembly, and other party leaders also participated in the protest. Hyderabad, which is a city's five million muslim population, is a traditional stronghold of MIM. The party won all the five assembly seats in the old city and the Hyderabad Lok Sabha seat in the 2004 elections.

MiM calls for Hyderabad Bandh Against Bomb Blasts

Above Pic Shows a Road in Hyderabad During Bandh Called By MiM and MiM MP Asaduddin Owaisi along with MiM Party Workers Forming Human Chain to Stop Police From Lathicharging Protestors in Hyderbad

Hyderabad: The All India Majlis e Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has called for a bandh on Saturday to protest against the bomb blast at the Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad.
According to MiM Party sources, seven persons died in the blast in the mosque while seven others were killed in police firings to quell riotous mobs who came onto the roads subsequently. In all, 98 persons were injured in the blast and the subsequent incidents.

The MiM party leaders blamed the state government for the police firing. Additionally they urged that the state leaders should swing into action, and nab all those responsible for the blasts.
MIM has also alleged that the blast was the handiwork of people who do not want any unity between Hindus and Muslims in India. "People are very angry. To call it a hurt would be an understatement. Why is it that mosques are being targeted in all in Congress-ruled states? The police wanted to cover up this, hence they resorted to firing," Asaduddin Owaisi, MiM MP from Hyderabad, alleged.

He also said that the police should have maintained restraint but resorted to firing at the panic -stricken mob. He alleged that Additional Commissioner (Crime) Rajiv Trivedi was trying to link the Mecca Masjid blast with the one at the City Task Force office in October 2005.The Police should have open mind It is a terror act. The Police will end their sterotype investagation by linking the act to Bangladesh or Pakistan.

Action has to be taken immediately against the erring police officers who opened fire on the common people. A CBI inquiry should be done into the incidents the Majlis e Ittehadul Muslimeen Party has called for a bandh tomorrow to protest against the attack on the composite culture of Hyderabad and Secunderabad , said Mr Owaisi .

MIM threatens Agitation against Dividing Muslim Community

Andhra Pradesh United Muslim Action Committee Members with Congress Party President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi submitting a Memorandum in New Delhi.

HYDERABAD: The Majlis e Ittehadul Muslimeen Party leadership reacted strongly on Tuesday to the proposed government move to divide the community on caste lines, declare it backward and give reservation in professional colleges and government jobs beginning in July and said it would resist the move.

Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen MP Asaduddin Owaisi said that if the government did not desist from this dangerous approach of dividing Muslims into castes, our party will be constrained to start a public agitation against this move the party treats it as an attack on unity and existence of the community.

In the letter that he wrote to chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy on March 28, Owaisi said that the inaction of the government in pursuing the pending appeal in Supreme Court against the orders of the AP High Court quashing the Muslim Reservations Act has already caused enough heart burn among the Muslims.

MIM Asks AP Govt For CBI Probe Into Fake Encounters

MiM MP Asaduddin Owaisi addressing Mediapersons on Fake Encounter Case in MiM Headquarters Darussalam in Hyderabad.

Hyderabad, May 3: All India Majlis-e-Ettehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) Leader and MP Asaduddin Owaisi today demanded the state government to order CBI inquiry into the alleged involvement of state police officials in the Gujarat fake encounter case.Addressing the press here, Mr Owaisi alleged City Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Raji Trivedi and the then City Police Commissioner Mohanty were involved in the case and said their role required investigation.

He said Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy should not try to protect the state policemen involved in the encounters. The Chief Minister should order a CBI probe to avoid problems later. He reminded YSR that the Muslims had deserted Chandrababu Naidu in the 2004 elections because he had become insensitive to their security and moved too close to the BJP. A similar situation could stare the Congress in the face, if immediate measures are not taken to address the growing concerns of the community. "Don't shield the black sheep in the police. Such an attempt would hurt your image," Owaisi said.

He said that the top brass of the Hyderabad police in November 2005 must have certainly known about the goings on in the city at that time. Chief minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi stands for the destruction of the secular fabric of the country. Why should Y S Rajasekhara Reddy try to cover up something that would help Modi's government and damage his own, he asked. "The Muslims will not care for the five per cent reservation or any other concession that the state government plans to dole out if they feel that there is no safety for their lives under the Congress rule," Owaisi said.

Alleging a conspiracy on the part of the Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh Police in the killing of Sohrabuddin and his wife Kausar Bi in a fake encounter because of 'hatred and for commercial gains,' Mr Owaisi said there was a need for an open debate at national level on the issue and it was high time to frame proper regulations for handing over people to the other state police.He said that the top brass of the Hyderabad police in November 2005 must have certainly known about the goings on in the city at that time. Chief minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi stands for the destruction of the secular fabric of the country. Why should Y S Rajasekhara Reddy try to cover up something that would help Modi's government and damage his own, he asked.

MiM MP Asaduddin Owaisi said that the inquiry should be divided into two parts. One should start from November 2005 when the conspiracy to eliminate Sheikh was hatched. The second part of the probe should cover the nexus between the Gujarat police and a section of the Andhra Pradesh police during the period between 2002 till the present during which time a number of Hyderabadi Muslims were killed in Hyderabad in fake encounters and several of them were also handed over to Gujarat Police, he said.

He asked Telugu Desam Party (TDP) President N Chandrababu Naidu, who claimed to be a champion of Muslims in the state, to make a statement on the fake encounters.

MiM Demands for Seprate Metropolitan Regional Development Board for Hyderabad

Majls e Ittehadul Muslimeen Party Headquarters Darrussalam on the eve of Milad u Nabi Meeting in Hyderabad , MiM MP Asaduddin Owaisi Can be seen adressing the Gathering .

Hyderabad, April 26: All India Majlis-e-Ittehaadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi on Thursday demanded the State Government to constitute a separate Metropolitan Regional Development Board for Hyderabad.

In a statement here, Akbaruddin Owaisi recalled that since 2004, the AIMI has been demanding the revival of the regional development boards for the three regions which were abolished by the previous Telugu DesamParty government way back in 1983.

He pointed out that the regional boards for Telangana , Andhra and Rayualaseema regions were established under the Six-Point Formula hammered out in September 1973 by the Central Government in the wake of separatist agitations in Telangana during 1969-71 and in Andhra region in 1972-73. However, in 1983, the then TDP Chief Minister N T Rama Rao had abolished these regional boards without any rhyme or reason.

While welcoming the decision of the Congress government now to revive the regional boards, he,however, questioned the rationale behind the creation of two regional boards for Coastal Andhra—one for three north coastal districts and another for six south coastal districts. Regional Development Boards for Telangana, Andhra and Rayalaseema regions are enough.

Instead of creating two regional development boards for Coastal Andhra, he asked Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy to constitute a separate metropolitan regional development board for Hyderabad. He pointed out that both the central and state governments are collecting taxes to the tune of Rs 25,000 crore every year from the t win cities of Hyderabad-Secunderabad and adjoining areas. However, both the governments are providing financial assistance of less than Rs 1,000 crore annually for the twin cities under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission and other state and central schemes implemented by the Municipal Corporation and other civic bodies.

He said that the State Government has proposed to form Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority besides creating the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, even though the latter issue is pending in the Supreme Court. In this backdrop, the State government should set up a separate Metropolitan Regional Development Board for Hyderabad with representation to elected representatives from the twin cities so that effective metropolitan development plans are drawn up and implemented.

MiM MP Asaduddin Owaisi Visits Nandigram in West Bengal