New Delhi, 03 Feb: Jamaat-e-Islami Hind has accused the BJP government of Uttar Pradesh of bias against minorities in the background of Kasganj violence and subsequent arrests being carried out by the UP police.

Addressing a press meet the Secretary General of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) Muhammad Salim Engineer said: ’’ A delegation led by Jamaat-e-Islami Hind visited Kasganj recently to assess the situation and get first-hand information from those affected by the violence and arson. Jamaat feels that the law enforcement agencies in Kasganj are having a very biased attitude against the minorities, which is reflected in the substantially high number of arrests of youth from the Muslim community.  The CrPC sections invoked against the arrested Muslim youth on charges of inciting and committing violence in Kasganj are also very strict while the real culprits have been let off or charged under very mild CrPC sections so that they can be bailed out easily. We would like to question the Yogi administration on why Tiranga rally was permitted when it was clear that the people behind it were having a communal agenda to vitiate the peaceful atmosphere of the city and create communal strife. We demand a judicial probe into the Kasganj violence and are not satisfied by the order to conduct a SIT probe’’.

Replying to a question on the recent statements by National Minorities chairman Ghayroul Hassan regarding the Babri Masjid and Madrassas the JIH Secretary General said: ‘’we are not surprised at such statements which are diagonally opposite of mainstream Muslim community opinion as the NDA Central government has appointed such people to these posts who  toe their anti-minority stand’’.

Salim Engineer also offered his opinion about the Union Budget 2018-19 and said that: ‘’the allocation towards education and health needs to be increased. Jamaat expects the government to spell out full details on how it plans to implement the various targets it has spelt out in the Budget and come up with data on how much the allocation was actually utilized for welfare of the minorities and weaker sections’’.

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Jamaat-e-Islami Hind