AIMIM President Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi ( Salar e Millat) Passes Away

The Late All India Majlis e Ittheadul Muslimeen President Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi (Salar e Millat) in a file Photo after winning the election in 1989.

Second Pic the Body of Late AIMIM President Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi kept in Party Headqaurters in Darrusalam for Last Respects in Hyderabad

AIMIM President Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi ( Salar e Millat) Passes Away Sep 29th, 2008

Hyderabad, Sep 29 (IANS) All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) President and former MP Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi ( Salar e Millat) died here Monday night, his family said. He was 76. He was hospitalised about 10 days ago with breathing problems.

Owaisi, who dominated Hyderabad politics for four decades, is survived by his wife, three sons and a daughter.

He breathed his last around 9 p.m. at his residence in Hyderguda. The end came a few hours after he was shifted from hospital, his son and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi said.

His body will be kept at Darussalam, the MIM headquarters, Tuesday morning to enable people to pay their last respects. The burial will take place at the Dargah Hazrat Mohammed Hasan graveyard near the party office.

‘Salar’, as he was popularly known, represented the Hyderabad Lok Sabha constituency for two decades. He was first elected to parliament in 1984 and re-elected in 1989, 1991, 1996, 1998 and 1999.

Owaisi began his political career in his youth and was first elected to the state legislative assembly in 1962. He continued to be a state legislator till he was elected to parliament.As the news of his death spread, shopkeepers in Hyderabad downed shutters and black flags were flown in mourning. Police beefed up security as a precautionary measure.

MIM has one MP and five state legislators from the cityof Hyderabad, where Muslims are an overwhelming majority.

Mr Owaisi headed the AIMIM since 1975 and was Member of Parliament from Hyderabad for six terms from 1984 to 2004. Now, his eldest son Mr Asaduddin Owaisi represents Hyderabad in Parliament. His second son Mr Akbaruddin Owaisi is the floor leader of the five-member MIM group in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly.

In the post-Independence era, the MIM was revived in 1958 when Mr Salahuddin Owaisi¢s father and eminent lawyer Moulana Abdul Wahed Owaisi was elected its president. Mr Wahed Owaisi, known as Fakhr-e-Millat, held the post till his death in 1975. Mr Salahuddin Owaisi was elected to succeed him as party chief. He was re-elected for six consecutive terms and held the post till his death.

In March 2004, Mr Salahuddin Owaisi opted out of electoral politics and did not contest the Lok Sabha elections, after being elected to the Parliament from Hyderabad for six consecutive terms during two decades (1984-2004). The party fielded his eldest son and two-term legislator Mr Asaduddin Owaisi from Hyderabad Lok Sabha constituency, who is now serving his maiden term in Parliament.

In his political career spanning 50 years, Mr Salahuddin Owaisi held elective posts for 44 years. He was first elected to the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad as a councilor in 1960. As MIM floor leader, he was the leader of the opposition in MCH for two terms (1960-69). He made into the Assembly in the 1962 polls by trouncing the then Congress minister Mrs Masooma Begum from a city constituency. Again, in 1967, he defeated another Congress minister Mir Ahmed Ali Khan by contesting against him. He was elected to the Assembly for five terms between 1962-1984.

A veteran of electoral battles all through his long political career, Mr Salahuddin Owaisi successfully contested elections 13 times and lost only once in the 1977 Lok Sabha elections. He has steered the party through turbulent times during the last 33 years. The party has grown from strength to strength under his leadership. The MIM currently has five MLAs, one Member of Legislative Council (MLC) and one MP, besides a number of councilors and corporators in municipalities and municipal corporations in the state.

Thanks to his efforts, the MIM, through the Dar-us-Salam Educational Trust, established an Engineering College, a Medical College, a Degree College, and Colleges for MBA, MCA, Pharmacy and Nursing, and an Industrial Training Institute. The MIM also runs a Cooperative Urban Bank, besides two major hospitals in the city. Besides fighting for the rights of the Muslim minority, the party has been espousing the cause of Urdu language, literature and culture.

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.

MiM MP Asaduddin Owaisi Speech On 12 August 2007 in Chicago,USA Part 1

MiM MP Asaduddin Owaisi :Taslima is a threat to Peace

MiM Floor Leader Akbaruddin Owaisi Speaking to Mediapersons Outside City Court with MiM MLA's who were out on bail after being Arrested over there Protest on blasphemous writer Taslima Nasreen in Hyderabad.

Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MiM) is in the news for an attack on Taslima Nasreen by three of its MLAs. Asaduddin Owaisi, leader of MiM and MP from Hyderabad who is in Chicago ,USA says that it was not an attack but a protest against Taslima’s actions. Kashif-ul-huda of TwoCircles.net spoke to him about this incident.

TwoCircles.Net: Would you comment on the recent attack on Taslima Nasreen in Hyderabad?

Asad Owaisi: I disagree that it was an attack; it was a public protest against an individual who is not an Indian citizen, and who has been given refugee status in India. She has a habit of ridiculing Islam and making fun of the Prophet of Islam (pbuh). We wanted to lodge a peaceful democratic protest against her. Unfortunately the organizers did not listen to our viewpoint that resulted in the assault of press people who were there, which we regret.

We have a democratic right to protest her and protest her visit. We feel that she is a great threat to the peace of not only Hyderabad but to India as well. Her writing has always created fissures and divisions within the community.

I feel that Indian government should deport her by classifying her persona non grata. Through her writing she is creating division between Hindus and Muslims by exploiting freedom that she has in India. India will be better off if such persons are not allowed to live in India.

TCN: She has been living in India for some time now, what was the need for this protest now?

AO: Once again, I would like to correct you that if you follow my parliamentary speeches, one speech that I gave, two months ago, in the last parliament session. It was on the topic of internal security; in that debate, I demanded that she should be deported and she should follow in the footsteps of Dalai Lama, who has come to India in 1950. He has an animosity towards China but has never used Indian territory to propagate anything against China. He was given Nobel peace prize.

Taslima Nasreen should have followed Dalai Lama, how graciously he lived in India. Taslima is disliked not only by Muslims but also by secular Hindus.
Can you tell me what the importance of Taslima Nasreen is? What is her contribution to literature? She is famous because she is anti-Islam and she ridicules Prophet Mohammed (pbuh).

TCN: Don’t you think that attacks like these put her in the limelight and give her more press coverage?

AO: May be you are right, but we wanted to get our message across to the government of India, we wanted the people to know. Hyderabad has long history of harmony between communities we don’t want this environment to get polluted.

The most important point, which has not got highlighted, is that the organizers are known Hindutva and Sangh Parivar members. They did not even inform the local police. They didn’t inform central agencies that she will be in Hyderabad. We are just fortunate that we came to know when this function was about to end. We decided immediately that we should protest her visit. We wanted the message to go to Indian government and Indian people that this person has no other work apart from nuisance, creating division, provoking Muslims by hurting their religious sentiments. At least now she knows that she can get away with nonsense things that she has said in the past.

TCN: Will you take your protest outside Hyderabad?

AO: We are requesting all right thinking people, all secular minded people that we should be together on this. It is not a question of only Muslims coming out to protest. We want all the people to come out. India is famous for its pluralism. India is famous for having good relations among all the communities.

It is one of the countries of the world where you can find all the religion that are in the world. We want to maintain the pluralism that India has given to the world. So I hope that people should protest against her and government of India understand and respect the wishes of the people and take action against her.

TCN: One of your legislators Muqtada Afasr Khan is reported to have said that if Taslima comes to the city again, she will be killed. What do you say about this?

AO: This is wrongly reported, what he said that if she comes again we will launch a very organized and strong protest against her. If anything happens to her then the responsibility will lie with the state government and the state machinery.

The consequences will be draconian. Words have been attributed to our MLA that he never said, he only mentioned the strong protest that Majlis will organize and if any thing goes wrong consequences will lie with the government. This is what he said, but the local media has twisted and added flavour and attributed something to him that he never said.

TCN: How justified is it for a political party like MiM to take up this issue which is basically religious in nature?

AO: Indian Penal Code 153(a) clearly states that it is an offence to create amongst different religious communities. Indian Constitution gives me this right that to ensure that no animosity takes place between different religious communities. Our launching of protest against Taslima Nasreen is that she has to be stopped in initial stages. If she continues with her divisive writings in the guise of freedom of expression this will lead to more friction among Hindus and Muslims and different communities.

I am for freedom of expression; I am for freedom of press. But every freedom has some limitation; one should not cross those limitations. What we are saying is that, I want the whole world to understand that as far as Muslims are concerned, you can criticize my action, you can criticize my policies, you can criticize my parents and my profession but there is a limit. You can not criticize my Prophet Mohammed (pbuh), that is my identity. You can not criticize him, you can not ridicule him. You can not commit blasphemy against him. Various countries of the world have religious laws that e.g. there are many Christian countries that have laws that say that you can not commit acts of blasphemy against Jesus.

How can you ridicule Prophet Mohammed Pbuh, which is an integral part of our faith. As faras Muslims are concerned, my faith is not complete unless and until I have the utmost respect for my Prophet. This needs to be understood from Muslims’ point of view.
This is not a question of freedom of expression; this is not a question of taking law into our hands. We hope that people understand it from our view point.

TCN: How is your action different than actions that Bajrang Dal and Shiv Sena takes against writers and artists?

AO: My party is not a fascist party but they have a record of hurting different minorities and they have been involved in various riots, which has been corroborated by various commissions and fact-finding committees.

If we really wanted to really harm her (Taslima Nasreen), there was no stopping. It’s just that we came to know that she is in Hyderabad. Her whole visit was done in a very surreptitious way. If it was done in an open way, we would have lodged our protest in a more organized way and I am sure this would not have happened.

Courtesy (http://www.indianmuslims.info/)

Case Booked Against MiM Floor Leader Akbaruddin Owaisi

MiM President Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi with MiM Party MLAs and Workers after there Protest Against blasphemous writer Taslima Nasreen.

HYDERABAD, Aug. 12: The Hyderabad police booked a case of criminal intimidation against Majlis Ittehadul Musilmeen floor leader Mr Akbaruddin Owaisi for threatening to behead the Blasphemous Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen.

The 14th additional chief metropolitan magistrate granted the police permission late Saturday night after perusing a petition filed by the police along with video footage containing Mr Owaisi’s remarks. Subsequently, police booked case of Section 506 IPC, which deals with criminal intimidation.

Mr Owaisi's Video footage Speaking to news channels that beamed his statement at the Punjagutta police station are being collected to submit them to the court on Monday as evidence. “If the court is satisfied with the evidence, it will allow us to arrest him and file a chargesheet,” explained ACP Punjagutta L. K. Shinde on Sunday. At the same time, the court may also issue summons to Mr. Owaisi seeking explanation on evidence submitted by the police against him.

Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi had lodged a complaint with the police alleging that Nasrin’s statements had hurt the sentiments of Muslims. The police booked a case against her under Section 153-A (inciting enmity between different groups) of the Indian Penal Code on his complaint.

Meanwhile, police have placed orders for Nasreen’s books ~ Lajja and Amar Meyebela ~ to see if there are any blasphemous passages in them. Police sources said this is part of their investigation into Mr Owaisi’s complaint against Nasreen that she has caused enmity between religious groups via her writing.