By SIRAJ WAHAB | ARAB NEWS
JEDDAH: A prominent Indian leader from Hyderabad who performed this year’s Haj said his party has created the right template for the success of Indian Muslims in democratic India.
Speaking at a packed Al-Hayat Continental Hotel on Wednesday, Akbaruddin Owaisi, whose Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen party shares power with the centrist Congress Party in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, said when MIM was launched more that 50 years ago, there were many skeptics who rejected the idea of a separate Muslim political party.
“When my grandfather and father went about the task of reviving the MIM, the odds were heavily stacked against them,” he said.
“It was not easy to organize the Muslims of Hyderabad on a political platform after what had happened in 1948,” Owaisi said. “There were many Muslims who thought the creation or revival of a separate Muslim party would be counterproductive and disastrous.”
Fifty years later everyone is trying to emulate the MIM example in the rest of the country, he said.
Akbaruddin Owaisi
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