By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net
New Delhi: Almost having overcome the initial resistance by local Hindutva cadres in connivance with property developers to legally acquired land for a mosque – first in the entire Rohini area of New Delhi – the local Muslims have joined their heads to build their long cherished house of worship, brick by brick literally.
On every Friday hundreds of Muslims from entire Rohini area in North-West Delhi gather for Juma Prayers. After the prayers the management body collects donations from the Namazis. Everyone willingly takes part as per their capacity. “Last Friday Rs 5000 was collected. Today about Rs 8000 has been collected,” says Arman Khan, a namazi who had come from Sector 11 of the Rohini area.
At present people are offering Five Time prayers and Juma Prayer inside a kuccha wall erected some weeks ago to acquire the land. They hope very soon they will start building the mosque. Yesterday was fourth Friday since the namaz established in the mosque in mid-June. There is apparently no tension now in the atmosphere. Since the violent protest four weeks ago by anti-social elements against the namaz here, the mosque has been heavily guarded by the Delhi police.
For first three Fridays since June 15 – when the Delhi Development Authority handed over the piece of land in Rohini’s Sector 16 to management committee of the nearby Darsgah Islamia – the local Muslims had to face tough resistance from the collaboration of property developers, who had been eyeing the piece of land at the prime location in the area, and affiliates of some Hindutva organizations.
The piece of land has been acquired by the madrasa from the DDA through genuine and legal process. Yet, the anti-social elements came on street on June 26 (Friday) and forcibly tried to prevent the faithful from offering the prayer. Several of them were beaten up while on their way to the mosque. Thanks to the timely action of the Delhi police a major communal clash was averted.
Iqtedar Hussain, head of the masjid committee, says it is property developers who spread rumours to arouse communal passion and to prevent Muslims from building the mosque at their legally purchased land.
“Some property developers had spread false propaganda against Muslims that if they were allowed to build the mosque, they will open here meat shop. They are very dirty people and will harm the atmosphere of the area,” says Hussain.
He refutes the point that locals are against the mosque. He says it is property developers who are misguiding them. And as they have seen us offering prayers peacefully for the last one month, so local Hindus are now coming out of the influence of propaganda, he says.
This is the first mosque in entire Rohini of a few lakh people. Muslims are around 10,000 in the area. As they had to go several kilometers away for Juma prayers and for the last eight years they were offering prayers in a park, they had been demanding the government to allot the land for a mosque. Local MLA and MP have also supported our demand, says Hussain.
Arman Khan, originally from Bahraich district in UP and living in Sector 11 of Rohini for last five years, also says that there has never been any communal feeling. He and his maternal uncle Nafees Khan runs a chain of juice shop in Rohini. “More than 95% of our customers are Hindus but we never felt any Hind-Muslim thing,” they say.
They are happy that the mosque will be built in the locality.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Brahmin Mridulananda Sarma terror against simple local peoples
GUWAHATI- July 10: The latest such case is the killing of two innocent truckers by the PSO of CID SP Mridulananda Sarma for a simple accident involving a truck (ASO1U6065) and a Scorpio (ASO1AJ6259) of the SP at Lokhra Chariali in Guwahati last night.
According to City Additional SP Debojit Deuri, when the truck hit the SP’s Scorpio that had the family of the SP also as its occupants, one of the PSOs, Gadhadhar Rai, took a motorcycle from a person nearby, chased the truck and killed its driver Krishna Chandra Tripuria and the handyman. The ASP further said the SP asked the other two PSOs to go and bring back Gadhadhar, but when they reached the spot the two truckers were shot dead. Unofficial sources, however, said the PSO chased the truck with the Scorpio itself, with the SP right inside the vehicle, and shot dead the two truckers.
Now the question is: how can a PSO be so desperate in front of his commanding officer? The duty of PSOs is to protect the person for whom they are assigned to protect, and in this accident there was no attack of any sort on the SP. The duty of the PSO and the SP was to hand over the truckers to the nearest police station. Or, is it that despite calls by various accountability commissions for police reforms, police officers and their PSOs in Assam think they are above the law of the land? Can such a police force ever exist for any people?
Two cases — one on firing (333/09) and the other on accident (332/09) — were registered in Bashistha police station against the PSO. Sources said the PSO fired as many as 30 rounds of bullets from his AK-47 rifle while chasing the truck.
Meanwhile, a large number of local people and vehicle drivers blocked the road in front of Bashistha police station today demanding action against the SP and the PSO. On the other hand, PSO Gadadhar Rai was produced before the CJM Court today. He has been sent to three-day police custody.
Meanwhile, the All Assam Motor Shramik Federation and the CITU have called a 24-hour strike all over the State from 5 am on July 13 in protest against the killing of the two truckers.
According to City Additional SP Debojit Deuri, when the truck hit the SP’s Scorpio that had the family of the SP also as its occupants, one of the PSOs, Gadhadhar Rai, took a motorcycle from a person nearby, chased the truck and killed its driver Krishna Chandra Tripuria and the handyman. The ASP further said the SP asked the other two PSOs to go and bring back Gadhadhar, but when they reached the spot the two truckers were shot dead. Unofficial sources, however, said the PSO chased the truck with the Scorpio itself, with the SP right inside the vehicle, and shot dead the two truckers.
Now the question is: how can a PSO be so desperate in front of his commanding officer? The duty of PSOs is to protect the person for whom they are assigned to protect, and in this accident there was no attack of any sort on the SP. The duty of the PSO and the SP was to hand over the truckers to the nearest police station. Or, is it that despite calls by various accountability commissions for police reforms, police officers and their PSOs in Assam think they are above the law of the land? Can such a police force ever exist for any people?
Two cases — one on firing (333/09) and the other on accident (332/09) — were registered in Bashistha police station against the PSO. Sources said the PSO fired as many as 30 rounds of bullets from his AK-47 rifle while chasing the truck.
Meanwhile, a large number of local people and vehicle drivers blocked the road in front of Bashistha police station today demanding action against the SP and the PSO. On the other hand, PSO Gadadhar Rai was produced before the CJM Court today. He has been sent to three-day police custody.
Meanwhile, the All Assam Motor Shramik Federation and the CITU have called a 24-hour strike all over the State from 5 am on July 13 in protest against the killing of the two truckers.
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