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Majlis plan to glorify the anti-national Razakar movement in
This is from misc.news.southasia. Source: CGI, Jan 6 , 1995.
Majlis plan to glorify the anti-national Razakar movement in Hyderabad
HYDERABAD - An attempt seems to be afoot to glorify and extend support
to the notorious anti-national Razakar movement that left a trail of
blood in Telangana in the early years of independence.
The Majlis Bachao Tehreek, under the leadership of legislator
Mohammad Amanullah Khan, is organising a massive public meeting here to
pay homage to the friend of Deccan, Qasim Razvi.
The party is observing Friday as "Yaum-e-Siddiq-e-Deccan' (the
day of Siddiq-e-Deccan), as Razvi is known among the old city Muslims.
Mr Khan will preside over the meeting.
The anti-national Razvi was given a number of honorifics in
advertisements issued by the organising committee in various Urdu
newspapers on thursday.
This is the first time an outlawed person like Razvi is being
honoured like this. The Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen, of which the
Tehreek is an offshoot, had never organized public meetings in honour
of Qasim.
Razvi had led the infamous Razhakar movement in 1947-48 against the
Indian Army and let loose a reign of terror in Telengana, killing
innocent men and women. The movement aimed at merger of the then
Hyderabad State with Pakistan.
The Razakar movement he started in 1944 became a strong
paramilitary force which crushed anyone who raised a voice in favour
of the then Hyderabad state merging with Indian Union.
Though the MIM discarded the leadership of Qasim Razvi, who
since led it, ever since the party was revived in 1957, the newly
formed Tehreek holds him in high esteem and his portraits adorn the
walls of its office at Mogalpura in the city.
According to Tehreek sources, the public meeting has been
planned to revive the old glory and honour of the community under the
leadership of Qasim Razvi.
the newspaper advertisements carrying photographs of Mr Khan
and Razvi appealed to the people to participate in large numbers and
pay homage to the warrior of Islam (Mujahid-e-millat). One
advertisement featured Mr Khan with Mr Bahadur Yar Jung, the MIM
founder.
