By Muslim Mirror Special Correspondent,
New Delhi: Dr. Najma Heptullah is new Minister of Minority Affairs in Narnedra Modi-led NDA government who took charge on Tuesday but not without triggering a controversy. Talking to reporters at Ministry’s office in Pariyawaran Bhawan here after assuming charge from his predecessor K Rehman Khan, she said Muslims are not minorities but Parsees and the her ministry will give due focus to rescue them from extinction.
She poohed poohed the Sachar Committee and Justice Rangnath Mishra Commission reports. A political turncoat Dr Heptullah, who was with the Congress before joining the BJP in 2004, said that it was not necessary to implement all the recommendations of the Sachar committee. She has rejected the idea of reservation to Muslims saying it was ill-conceived policy of the Congress-led UPA government. She bluntly said the reservation for Muslims is not in the ambit of the Constitution and the ministry has to work under the frame work of the Constitution. However, she said the ministry will look into the matter.
Avoiding any comments on her predecessor’s, she asked why only Muslims name are cropped up whenever minorities are mentioned. “There are other minorities also and the ministry is for all the recognized five minority religious groups”. On a question, what will be her priorities, she quipped that Narendra Modi is the General of the Team and she would draw a roadmap for her ministry only after getting guidance from him. She announced that she will chalk out a roadmap for activities soon.
On the occasion the Secretary briefed her and gave a presentation to her about the activities of the Ministry in presence of other officers of the Ministry. She took note of various schemes. She sought co-operation of the officers of the Ministry in her endevour to serve people better and effectively.
Taking the note of her controversial remarks, noted rights activist and intellectual J.S.Bandukwala said he was much disturbed by some of the comments of Najma Heptullah in the last two days. “She considers Parsees, having a population of about 69000 the weakest minority in India. In reality Parsees have the highest per capita income of any community or caste in India. She wants a scapping of the Prime minister’s fifteen point programme set up after the Sachar and Mishra reports”.
J.S.Bandukwala further pointed that the non implementation of the Gujarat minority scholarships, she blandly calls it “misinformation”. She is in favour of the three issues the RSS is demanding: construction of the temple at Ayodhya, uniform civil code and removal of Article 370.She claims to be the grand niece of Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad but horribly she has become the flag bearer of the RSS in crushing the Muslim community”, Bandukwala added..
While one commentator caustically said “Modi should better scrap Minority Affairs Ministry which is formed to benefit a select few at the cost of entire minority communities. The Congress put in unpopular persons such as AR Antuley and Salman Khurshid; now the NDA government made Najma Heptuallah as new incumbent of the ministry who is dancing to the RSS tune”.
Muslims leadership must make it clear to Modi and his friends that Najma does not represent the Muslims of India. One way out is to wear black bands on a given day.
Muslim must make distance from such horrible thinker about muslims, she is really dancing on RSS tune.
But she is saying Muslims need education. I think she is correct.
Salam to all, The way so called Doctorate degree holder or somthing uttered her indignified words, we smell as though she has eaten rats & smell in her mouth against Muslim Minority. An ingnorant souls. I remember the story of fox Houls when a fox mixed with lion under the lion skin & when foxes hauld ,the fox could not control itself so hauled. Muslim Must disassociate with this person & never vote again.
A Muslim who look down upon own poor suffering society must not be treated as a Muslim at all. Education does not teach us dress as a Non Muslim . Wearing a head scarp make lady look more respectable . Shame to such base minded people of India.
come & look how many Docrated In west wear respectable Muslim Dresses.
Mr Modi why even pretend to educate the Muslims
Hello everyone, I don’t intend to speak against muslims, but if muslims want the reservation on the basis of poverty then i guess every person who is poor should get the reservation, why do infact muslims need reservation or govt help, Govt provided reservation to SC/ST, how many of them are rich and prosperous, We all need to persist to make India free from social discrimination, but this will take time. It is not in the hand of BJP to get muslims prosperous nor it is in the hands of Congress. Muslims need to associate themselves with the rest of the people. Its a short platform, otherwise i could hv written a dozen mistakes committed b Muslims, not that Hindus haven’t suppressed them, but i can certainly tell you the hindu outlook and probably had u been in the place of hindus you would have felt the same
Vaibhav from Mumbai is really objective, very rationally nationalistic, and patriotic. If we had 100 of Vaibhav’s, among the majority, India would have been Singapore, where also Muslims are in minority, and as neighbors to a Muslim-majority country, where they go to buy their gas for their cars. If not, let Muslims of India take cues from Muslims in South Africa, one of whom suffered in jail with the late Mandela, like late Azad of India. But when Mandela formed his ministry, he chose several members of the minority who do not even constitute 1% of the total population there.
Why did Modi get only ONE, because he could not find qualified Muslims around. So let Muslims in India work for personal power via education. skill sets, trade, small businesses, and friendship, not adversarial positions, albeit without sacrificing their faith-based value system.
Najma is “Modi speak”. Let her be that. It won’t work. The late Shastri, the best PM India ever had was not foolish enough not to touch anything from the late Rafiq Zakaria’s minority report, very similar to reports cited in the article. But his own son, Fareed Zakaria, writes an intro for the Time magazine on behalf of Modi. It is not despicable at all, because he also writes “critique” for wines. Why is he sought after? He has personal power, finest education, politest demeanor. At the same time, he presents Islamic/Muslim viewpoint better than many “alims”, “ulema”. WHY? Because he knows how to communicate. Let Muslims of India produce several dozens “Zakarias”, “MJ Akbars”, who also has joined BJP, from the state of Bihar, where I was born, only seven miles away from where Lord Buddha, leader of another minority in India, got his “enlightenment” under the tree, whose precincts were completely renovated while RR Diwakar was a governor when Modi was born.
What did Zakir Hussain (ZH) do, who is related to Salman Khursheed, if I am not mistaken. The irony is: ZH had the honor of being a VC of two universities simultaneously, acted as governor of Bihar, VP, and President of India, and died while in office, with all grandeur. Even education, among Indian Muslims didn’t reach the commoners during his time.
Let Muslim Indians take ownership for their predicament, and obtain excellence in whatever they do, not only bookbinding and cooking. I wish them best of luck.
I remember fondly late Zakir Hussain, as I received three gold medals, from his hand, while he was Chancellor, too, of my alma mater, to which I express my gratitude for what it gave me to succeed here in the States. Thanks.
She is nothing but an opportunistic leech. And she was never a Muslim let alone a Muslim leader.
1. She is correct, Muslims are not a minority in India.
2. She did not win the election, and Muslims are not minority. It will be appropriate if we have a Parsi as Minister of Minority affairs.
3. How many black bands Muslims will wear ?
Bullshit if no muslim minority then why sc/st/obc better have all one. equal opportunity for all. May the best deserve the best !!! whichever religion he/she may belong
There are many reservations on the state level, regional level, tribal level, and many departments have reservation in India for their employees. What is wrong if reservation is provided for the muslims. SC , STs have reservation. OBCs have reservation but it hardly benefit to muslim.
With a population of around 250 million, Muslims in India are too large to be called a minority. India has the second-largest Muslim population in the world after Indonesia, though Pakistan, with runaway population growth after the break-up with Bangladesh, bids fair to overtake others in the next decade or two. If India’s Muslims were put into a geographically contiguous place, they would be the sixth or seventh largest country in the world.
I doubt that she is really grand daughter of a great hero of the nation.
Ashfaq your problem is that you treat that man whose qabar is being used by dog of jama masjid for urinating and that is what he deserve. This what you see outside his inside position further worst. These deobandi wahabi are doing the same thing. He as education minister taken aay minority satus of AMU and she want to take minority status of muslim itself.
It is no surprise that she is trying to please her MASTERS !
She is a opportunist-having been not able to make her mark or influence to get plum posts IN Congress she jumped in to BJP bandwagon.
Just Ignore it.
Maulana azad ki rooh ko badi takleef hui hogi.Badalta hai rang aasman kaise kaise.
hunger 4 power can lead a person away 4m truth n principle
Bitch goes after her master to eat some more shit.
The statement of Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mrs. Najma Heptulla that no special status is needed for Muslims is a matter of serous concern. Her remarks against Muslim reservation and Sachar Committee report would affect the implementation of the Prime Ministers 15 point programme. She conveniently forgets that her inclusion in the Cabinet itself was on the consideration of her Muslim name. Constitution has guaranteed protection of minority rights and they can not take away these rights right away. But such statements from the Minister would sabotage the welfare measures provided to Muslims. Such moves should be resisted by secular forces. The promise of BJP to implement a uniform civil code and abrogation of Article 370 etc has doubled the minorities concerns.
How is 370 relevant to muslim from Kerala.What direct benefits does a keralite muslim derive from Article 370 in J&K.
p.s Next time in addition to mentioning kerala in your title,please do mention non-secular in that title too….And for your GOD sake,please do not answer back saying i need to mention RSS/Hindu/Chaddi in my title, since i am none of those(not that I do hate these organizations and i do like shorts though not kakahi to be precise )
…However i will be proud to mention Atheist/Modi e.t.c in my Title if at all i am required to.
i think its shuld be equivalent playing ground. all reservations should be removed.and poor muslims should get equired help.in general poor people should get reservations.muslims are as indian as hindus living in india. politicos try to make most of these gap between hindus and muslims.why dont they exploit the hindu sikh or hindu christian or hindu buddhist relationships? because they get water in this field but other farms are dry. and yes muslims are a very significantly large community to called minority in real sense.mathematically yes.but from world wide view now. everyone indian needs to be given top class education so all this shit dies out