KANPUR: The anti-Congress Muslim leaders of the city have approached the Shahar Qazis, Qazi Abdus Samiand Maulana Manma Ahmad urging them to issue a fatwa banning Muslims from at tending Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao’s proposed public meeting next month,
Echoing the feelings of the Muslims, Abdul Barquad Nazmi, convener of the Babn Masjid Action Committee said “the Prime Minister is fully aware of the sentiments of the Muslims and he should not dare to enter the city for addressing a meeting.”
Describing him as Babri Masjid kaquatil, samvidhan (Constitution) ka quatil and judiciary kaquatil he said he had no moral right to face the Muslims. Meanwhile, irked over the anti-Prime Minister campaign launched by the anti-Congress Muslim leaders, the local Muslim leaders are making hectic efforts to invite some Muslim leaders like Satman Khurshid and Motisina Kidwal, to camp In the ‘city, at least for a day, to win back the Muslim supporters:
In the wake of the stepped up activities of the ant Congress organizations, particularly those associated with mosque movement, the Congress leaders are on their tenterhooks.
Sensing that the boycott by the Muslim community is imminent, the party managers took the decision to call ‘some influential leaders from Delhi to pacify the rising tempers.
Article extracted from this publication >> July 9, 1993
