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  • Hyderabad: Maulana Qubool Pasha Shuttari passes away

    Hyderabad: Maulana Qubool Pasha Shuttari passes away

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    Hyderabad: Maulana Qubool Pasha Shuttari, a renowned cleric of Hyderabad passed away in the early hours of Monday. He was the convener of the Ruyat-e-Hilal (Moon Sighting) committee and the Secretary of Sadar Majlis Ulema-E-Deccan.

    He was also a member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board and passed away at Owaisi Hospital Kanchan Bagh, at the age of 82.

    The cleric had been unwell for the past few months and in the wee hours of Monday his condition deteriorated upon which he was shifted to the hospital, where he breathed his last breath. He is survived by a son and four daughters.

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    Various scholars from Hyderabad and other districts have expressed deep shock over the demise of Maulana Qubool Pasha. Maulana used to deliver sermons at Shuttaria Mosque, Dabeerpura, on Fridays.

    According to sources from his family, his funeral prayers will be performed on Monday night at 11 pm at the Historic Makkah Masjid and burial will be held at the graveyard abutting Masjid-E-Shuttaria, in the inner dome of the shrine of Hazrat Kamil Shuttari.

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  • Tharoor slams govt over removal of Maulana Azad references from NCERT textbook

    Tharoor slams govt over removal of Maulana Azad references from NCERT textbook

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    New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday slammed the government over the removal of references to India’s first education minister Maulana Abul Kalam Azad in the new NCERT class 11 political science textbook, calling it a “disgrace”.

    References to freedom fighter and India’s first education minister Azad have been removed from the new class 11 political science textbook by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).

    Tagging a media report on it, Tharoor, a former minister of state for human resource development, tweeted, “What a disgrace. I have no objection to adding neglected figures to the historical narrative, but deleting people, especially for the wrong reasons, is unworthy of our diverse democracy and its storied history.”

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    As part of its “syllabus rationalisation” exercise last year, the NCERT, citing “overlapping” and “irrelevant” as reasons, dropped certain portions from the course including lessons on Gujarat riots, Mughal courts, Emergency, Cold War, Naxalite movement, among others from its textbooks.

    The rationalisation note had no mention of any changes in class 11 political science textbook.

    The NCERT has, however, claimed that no curriculum trimming has taken place this year and the syllabus was rationalised in June last year.

    “Certain changes not finding mention of in the rationalised content book could be an ‘oversight’,” NCERT Director Dinesh Saklani reiterated.

    In the class 11 political science textbook’s first chapter, titled ‘Constitution – Why and How’, a line has been revised to omit Azad’s name from the constituent assembly committee meetings.

    The revised line now reads, “Usually, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rajendra Prasad, Sardar Patel or BR Ambedkar chaired these Committees.”

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Maulana Azad’s erasure from NCERT books due to his Muslim identity: NCP

    Maulana Azad’s erasure from NCERT books due to his Muslim identity: NCP

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    Mumbai: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Thursday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of attempting to ‘erase’ the name of India’s first Education Minister and Bharat Ratna, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, from history because he was a Muslim.

    NCP national spokesperson Clyde Crasto said that the BJP-led government at the Centre is using the NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training) to wipe out Maulana Azad’s identity and his glorious contributions from India’s education system.

    Citing instances, he said a para in the first chapter of the old Class XI NCERT political science textbook said: “The Constituent Assembly had eight major Committees on different subjects. Usually, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rajendra Prasad, Sardar Patel, Maulana Azad or Ambedkar chaired these Committees.”

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    “However, in the new version of the same textbook by NCERT, the name of Maulana Azad has been omitted and the same sentence now reads: ‘Usually, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rajendra Prasad, Sardar Patel or B.R. Ambedkar chaired these committees’. This is truly unfortunate,” Crasto said.

    Suspecting a systematic conspiracy to delete Maulana Azad from history, the NCP leader pointed out how last year the Minority Affairs Ministry had abruptly discontinued the ‘Maulana Azad Fellowship’, which was started in 2009 (by the former UPA government) to provide financial help to students from six notified minorities for a period of five years.

    The NCERT comes under the Government of India which is currently led by the BJP, and therefore the question that comes to the mind is whether they are seeking to obliterate the name of India’s first Education Minister because of his religion, Crasto said.

    “There appears no other reason why they would do this to the first Education Minister of Independent India and one of our leading freedom fighters. The NCERT must clarify and answer to the citizens why Maulana Azad’s name is missing in the new version of the textbook, and how it will rectify this error,” Crasto said.

    Maulana Azad, a distinguished Islamic scholar, author, academician and a prominent freedom fighter, was elected as the youngest President of Indian National Congress aged 35, and later led the historic Khilafat Movement.

    After Independence, Maulana Azad served as India’s first Education Minister for over 10 years, during which he laid the foundations for the country’s massive academic network. Acknowledging his contributions, his birthday – November 11 – is celebrated as National Education Day.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Maulana Azad loses place in NCERT textbook

    Maulana Azad loses place in NCERT textbook

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    India’s first Education Minister, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, has lost a place in the revised political science textbook published by the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT).

    In the old Class 11 NCERT political science textbook, ‘Indian Constitution at Work’, Azad’s reference appeared in the first chapter ‘Constitution — Why and How?’.

    A paragraph in the chapter read, “The Constituent Assembly had eight major Committees on different subjects. Usually, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rajendra Prasad, Sardar Patel, Maulana Azad or Ambedkar chaired these Committees. These were not men who agreed with each other on many things. Ambedkar had been a bitter critic of the Congress and Gandhi, accusing them of not doing enough for the upliftment of Scheduled Castes. Patel and Nehru disagreed on many issues. Nevertheless, they all worked together.”

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    However, the revised textbook paragraph reads, ‘Usually, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rajendra Prasad, Sardar Patel or B.R. Ambedkar chaired these Committees.’

    This change omitted the significant contribution of Maulana Azad to India’s constitution drafting process.

    Maulana Azad’s role in India’s independence

    Azad played a crucial role in the elections for the new Constituent Assembly of India that drafted India’s constitution. In the election, he led the Congress and was an essential member of the assembly.

    As Congress president, he led the delegation to negotiate with the British Cabinet Mission. Despite growing hostility from Jinnah, who described him as the “Muslim Lord Haw-Haw” and a “Congress Showboy,” Azad remained committed to Hindu-Muslim unity.

    After Independence, Azad remained a close confidante, supporter, and advisor to prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru. As India’s first Minister of Education, he emphasized educating the rural poor and girls.

    Jammu and Kashmir’s conditional accession dropped

    Besides Azad’s removal, the reference of Jammu and Kashmir’s conditional accession has also been dropped in the tenth chapter of NCERT textbook, ‘Indian Constitution at Work’.

    The paragraph ‘For example, the accession of Jammu and Kashmir to the Indian union was based on a commitment to safeguard its autonomy under Article 370 of the Constitution.’ has been deleted.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Unity among Muslims is need of the hour: Maulana Imran Masood

    Unity among Muslims is need of the hour: Maulana Imran Masood

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    Hyderabad: In view of increasing sectarianism in the nation, Iman of Jama Masjid- Bengaluru, Maulana Imran Masood held that Muslims should consider ‘unity’ as their shield to sail through the situation.

    The Maulana is serving as an Imam in the Jama masjid of Bengaluru and is a renowned leader who encourages Muslim-Hindu unity while pledging to eliminate hatred building up due to political propaganda in the nation.

    The Siasat Daily, in an exclusive interview with the Imam at the Rainbow hotel in Lakdikapul, pulled light on the concept of unity among Muslims.

    Hijab ban, Halal controversy, Azaan on loudspeakers row, the Imam deliberated that the issues are nothing but political conspiracies fashioned to distract people from the main purpose of their survival.

    “The only way to deal with this challenge is for Muslims to avoid all kinds of petty differences and unity among Muslims is the most essential ingredient for the minorities to survive in the nation with other religions,” stressed the Imam.

    Shedding light on the role of Muslims during the election process, the Imam said, “India is a democratic country and each vote counts and hence, no person should trade their vote for anything.”

    Reflecting on the issue of Muslims being targeted in the nations in some way or the other, the imam said that education is the key factor in building communal ethics in children.

    Stressing the elevating Azaan issue, the maulana said that the call for prayer is given in accordance with the Supreme court guidelines which have not fixed a particular decibel of volume at which the call for prayer must be given.

    “Future generations must be taught to stay united for there is no life without unity,” asserted the imam.

    Parties working on the principle of secularism are preferred and not parties working with Muslim people in the leader’s seat.

    Maulana further stressed that the power of votes should not be underestimated and hence every Muslim has to uplift their fellow mates to encourage each other positive voting spirit.

    Concerning the serious situation that Muslims are currently going through and the way false powers are propagating against Islam and Muslims, the imam said, “disagreement in the Ummah is a source of mercy, but it should not be used as a source of chaos.”

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Maulana Azad out, PV Narasimha Rao in: Congress slammed over plenary ad

    Maulana Azad out, PV Narasimha Rao in: Congress slammed over plenary ad

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    The Congress party’s advertisement for its plenary session happening in Chattisgarh has received criticism from different quarters for two reasons: omitting the image of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and including the image of former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao.

    On criticism around Maulana Azad’s ommission, Congress MP Jairam Ramesh apologised the ‘inexcusable slipup’.

    “Today an ad released by INC did not carry a photograph of Maulana Azad. It was an inexcusable slipup. Responsibility for it is being fixed & action will be taken. Meanwhile, this is a most sincere apology from us. He will always remain an iconic & inspiring figure for us & India,” he tweeted.

    Abul Kalam Ghulam Muhiyuddin Ahmed bin Khairuddin Al-Hussaini Azad was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and an Indian independence activist, Islamic theologian, and writer.

    Following India’s independence, he was appointed as the country’s First Minister of Education. He is best known as Maulana Azad and he used the pen name Azad. His contribution to the establishment of the education foundation in India is recognised by declaring his birthday as National Education Day throughout the country.

    Adding to the fire, the All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) on Sunday called the inclusion of former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao’s image in an advertisement of the Congress party’s plenary an indication of its ‘secularism’.

    “The inclusion of PV Narasimha Rao says everything we need to know about Congress party’s “secularism”. As Prime Minister, Narasimha Rao played an essential role in the demolition of Babri Masjid. It should not be forgiven or forgotten, the party tweeted.

    Even in 2020, when Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao and the ruling TRS gave a call for a state assembly resolution to give Bharat Ratna to the former PM, AIMIM MLAs boycotted the proceedings.

    Narasimha Rao is often criticised for ‘not doing enough’ to stop the demolition of the Babri Masjid which took place on December 6, 1992, when he was the country’s Prime Minister.

    The Babri Masjid was illegally demolished on December 6, 1992, by a large group of activists from the Vishva Hindu Parishad and other organisations. The 16th-century Babri Masjid in the Uttar Pradesh city of Ayodhya had been the site of a long-running socio-political dispute, and it was targeted after a political rally organised by Hindu nationalist organisations turned violent.



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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )