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Muslim groups slam Kerala CM over Islamic
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Kerala Chief Minister V S
Achuthanandan incurred the ire of Muslim organisations and political
parties for stating that radical outfit Popular Front wanted to turn
the state
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Bhopal:
Twentysix leading human rights activists from all over India
including Arundhathi Roy have condemned the recent statement of
Kerala Chief Minister V. S. Achuthanandan that the state is going to
be Islamic with Muslim majority within 20 years.
"The remark of the Kerala Chief Minister Achuthanandan endangers the
communal harmony of the state and we urge him to withdraw his
remarks with immediate effect". a joint statement released by these
26 activists on Thursday said.
They have strongly deplored the statement made by Mr. Achuthanandan
about the alleged plans to convert youth of other religions in the
state to Islam using money and marriage. His unsubstantiated and
slanderous remarks tacitly support the Sangh Parivar smear campaign
in which they said that a conversion plan called ‘Love Jihad' was
used to lure Hindu and Christian youth in to the fold of Islam using
money and other inducements. The Kerala High Court itself had called
the bluff few months ago, the statement pointed out.
"We also express our concern at the continuing violation of human
and civil rights unleashed by the Kerala police against Muslim youth
in the state, especially in the district of Ernakulum, using the
widely condemned attack on a college teacher as pretext. There have
been many cases of illegal custody and torture in the interrogation
centres secretly run by the Kerala Police, breaking into houses at
midnight and physical and verbal harassment of women and total
violation of the Supreme Court directives on custody and arrest",
the statement stated.
The statement said that one of the leading human rights activists
N. M. Siddique of National Confederation of Human Rights
Organizations (NCHRO) was arrested and put in jail on a cooked up
charge just because he had filed a petition before National Human
Rights Commission NHRC about such incidents.
"We also seek intervention of National Human Rights Commission and
National Commission for Minorities to stop the violations and police
excesses in the state", the statement urged.
The signatories to the joint statement include: 1. Arundhati Roy, 2.
Dr. B. D. Sharma, 3. Vara Vara Rao, 4. Sumit Chakravarty, 5. GN
Saibaba, 6. Raj Kishore, 7. Meher Engineer, 8. Prof. Haragopal, 9.
Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty, 10. Sanjay Kak, 11. Saroj Giri, 12. S.
Bismillah, 13. Dr. Sunil Mandiwal, 14. Rona Wilson, 15. Dr. Zafarul
Islam Khan, 16. Shiv Sunder, 17. Justice Hosbet Suresh, 18. Aaris
Muhammad, 19. V. T. Rajshekar, 20. Nikhila Henry, 21. Nagari Babayya,
22. J. Devika, 23. Prof. T. B. Vijayakumar, 24. Dr. M. S. Jaiprakash,
25. E. Aboobacker and 26. Adv. K .P. Muhammad Shareef.
(pervezbari@eth.net)
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