WPI chief Dr Ilyas meets the 7-yr student who was beaten in UP school, extends all support to him

– Anwarulhaq Baig

New Delhi, Aug 30: The president of Welfare Party of India (WPI), Dr S.Q.R. Ilyas has met Altamash, a 7-year-old kindergarten student, who was recently beaten up by his classmates on teacher’s instruction in a school in Muzaffarnagar district, UP, due to his religion.

Dr Ilyas today visited Khubbapur village and met the victim of communal hatred and his father Irshad Ahmad to console them and assure them of all support.

According to WPI, Mr. Irshad, who belongs to a very poor family, has three children and Altamash is the youngest one.

Narrating his kid’s ordeal in the school, Mr Irshad told Dr Ilyas that the teacher was regularly targeting Muslim students. “This time his child was completely shaken. Still, he has not come out of trauma,” added the father of the victim.

Extending some financial aid to Altamash for his education, the WPI chief assured the family that the party would continue to support them whenever needed.

After the outrage from all quarters, authorities on Sunday informed that Neha Public School in Muzaffarnagar, where Altamash was beaten by his classmates, had been shut for a few days, awaiting an inquiry.

According to the District Magistrate, a First Information Report has been registered against the accused teacher, Tripta Tyagi. However, according to media reports, the teacher has defended her actions as a “minor issue”.

The youth organisation Fraternity Movement’s President Mohammad Asim, WPI Meerut District head Ateequr Rahman, UP chief of Adarsh Yuva Manch Dr Zubair Ahmad, Manch’s general secretary Mohd Arif and Mr Mohammad Shafiq accompanied Dr Ilyas.

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MTB director asks teachers to spare 15 minutes daily for learning modern digital methods of education

 Anwarulhaq Baig

Pune; August 30, 2023: Markazi Taleemi Board (MTB) director Syed Tanveer Ahmed has suggested teachers to spare at least 15 minutes a day for learning modern digital methods of education.

Addressing teachers in a seminar on ‘New Education Policy (NEP) and National Curriculum Framework (NCF)’ recently organized by All India Ideal Teachers Association (AIITA) at Azam Campus, Pune, the MTB director said, “The swift technological development has brought about revolutionary changes in all sectors of the world, including education. In the present era, efforts are being made to popularise the concept of collective learning, especially the development of mind and consciousness.”

Talking about teaching methods, he explained the stages of motivating students, practical application of education, analysis and study of acquired knowledge, evaluation and creativity. He also talked about personality development and change in thinking about parent-child relationships.

The MTB director mentioned various aspects of the NEP’s National Curriculum Framework, including value education, importance of education in the mother tongue, substantial change in overall attitude and efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goals.

Presiding over the seminar, AIITA’s Maharashtra President Syed Sharif has urged teachers to constantly improve their knowledge and adopt various curricular and extra-curricular methods for the all-round development of the students.

Briefly mentioning various activities and future plans of AIITA, especially its national education campaign, AIITA’s all-India media coordinator Momin Faheem Ahmad Abdul Bari emphasised the importance of positive thinking and training along with education. At the end, certificates were awarded to all the participants.

Source: RadianceNews.com

Maulana Gulzar Azmi: A true liberator of Muslim youths implicated in false cases

 Maulana Gulzar Azmi: A true liberator of Muslim youths implicated in false cases

August 25, 2023

Anwarulhaq Baig

Mumbai: Maulana Gulzar Ahmed Azmi, a staunch fighter for the oppressed people, especially innocent Muslim youth, implicated in false terror and criminal cases, and a prominent figure of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind in Maharashtra passed away in a hospital in Mumbai on August 20. He was 89. He was receiving treatment in hospital but succumbed to his head injury after a slip-and-fall incident.

Heading a legal aid committee of the Jamiat-i-Ulama Maharashtra since its inception in 2007, Maulana Azmi was fearlessly offering legal aid to the people implicated in false cases by government agencies and the police.

Maulana Azmi was born in Mumbai on May 1, 1934. After getting primary education at a Urdu medium school, he went to Darul Uloom Deoband to complete higher education in Islamic studies. After joining Jamiat in 1954, Azmi held key positions from the local head to the state’s vice president.  His journey in the quest for justice and civil rights started in the aftermath of the Bhiwandi and Jalgaon riots in 1970, when hundreds of Muslims were arrested, despite suffering heavy losses during the violence. The Jamiat came forward for the first time to get them released.

After the 1992-1993 Mumbai riots, Maulana Azmi assisted the Srikrishna Commission, set up by the Government of Maharashtra to investigate the causes of the riots. Remarkably, the Commission in its findings, praised Jamiat-i-Ulama for helping it in collecting key evidence. Even Maulana Azmi himself translated the inquiry report into Urdu. Due to his resilient support, Jamiat has extended legal help to hundreds of accused in many cases, running across the country.

Maulana Azmi never cowed down the allegations or threats to his life while defending civil rights cases. When asked about an imminent threat in defending the terror accused, he bravely replied that he did not fear for his life as he firmly believed that the time and place of his death were already decided.  He was active and remained involved in his routine legal aid activities even at 90.

Azmi has been a member of the Maharashtra State Minority Commission from 2002-2005, and again in 2014. He is survived by six sons and three daughters. Expressing deep grief over his death, Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind President Maulana Arshad Madani said Gulzar Azmi was associated with Maulana Hussain Ahmad Madani and Jamiat at a very young age and spent his entire life serving the country and the community. RadianceNews.com

Allama Delwar Hossain Sayeedi (1940-2023)

Anwarulhaq Baig

August 23, 2023: 

Bangladesh’s popular Islamic figure, former Member of Jatiya Sangsad and Vice President Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (BJI), Allama Delwar Hossain Sayeedi died on August 14, in a prison hospital in Dhaka following cardiac arrest. He was 83.

Allama Sayeedi was a popular Islamic preacher, writer and influential orator, having millions of fan followers.  Thousands of people came out on the streets to protest over his death, alleging negligence of prison authorities.

Allama Sayeedi was arrested on June 29, 2010, on charges of hurting religious sentiments. However, he was detained in a case of crimes against humanity on August 2, 2010. Later, a controversial war crimes tribunal sentenced him to death in 2013. His trial was criticised by international organisations, including HRW and AI while the defence lawyers boycotted the trial, dubbing the charges baseless and politically motivated. The Supreme Court commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment in September 2014, after facing global backlash. Several groups including the main opposition BNP and BJI raised serious questions over the legitimacy of the tribunal. Since his arrest, he spent 13 years of his life in prison. Bangladesh Jamaat accused the authorities of ‘slowly turning him into a martyr without treatment in prison.’

Born in Indurkani village of Pirojpur district on February 2, 1940, Allama Sayeedi completed his first religious education at his father’s Madrasa, attended the Sarsina Alia Madrasa in 1962, followed by Khulna Alia Madrasa. Later, he studied various languages, religions, sciences, politics, economics, foreign policy, psychology and various theories. He joined Bangladesh Jamaat in 1979 and became a Shura member in 1989. He served as BJI Vice President from 2009 till his demise.

BJI Acting President and former lawmaker Professor Mujibur Rahman led his funeral prayer at the Allama Sayeedi Foundation Ground in Pirojpur on August 15. Allama Sayeedi was laid to rest in the family cemetery in Machimpur, Pirojpur Municipality. Later, funeral prayers in absentia were held at various places across the country.By

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