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Jamiat Ulama - I - Hind

Report by Hazrat Maulana Amirul Hind Margoobur Rahman Sb. Jamiat 01-05-2008

M.Muzaffa

BACKGROUNDER

The meeting of Central Managing Committee of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind

Held on 5^th April 2008 at New Horizon Public School Campus,
Nr. Humayun Tomb, Hzt. Nizamuddin (E), New Delhi-25 

Importance of the Meeting of Central Managing Committee:

This meeting will not only decide who will be the President but it will deliberate on much wider and important issues. It will settle issues on which the survival of the organization and its future policies depend.

·                     Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind will be a democratic organization or will it be dominated by particular individual or family;

·                     Who will have the upper hand? Organization or Individual;

·                     Will an individual how ever highly placed he may be have the right to impose his wishes or the Working committee and the Managing committee will have the right to question;

·                     What will be the relation of the organization with the government and any political party? Can an individual mortgage the organization to a particular party;

·                     What will be mechanism to restrain the organization form being high jacked;

·                     Would there be transparency in the structure of the organization, its administration and accounts or not? The control would be institutional or individual?

·                     The meeting wills settle in one sentence whether there will be democracy, transparency and reckoning in Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, the oldest and largest organization of Indian Muslims or would it become personal property?

Central Managing Committee, the Most Powerful Body:

Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind is the largest and 90 years old organization of Muslims. It has played leading role in the freedom movement and thereafter, it has been in the forefront to raise the issues and challenges facing the community and country. It is a constitutional organization and its organizational structure is based on democratic principles. Its managing committee is the supreme body. It has right not only to formulate policies and programmes (Article 55A) but it can also reject or approve the resolution of the Working committee of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind Article 55(C). This body can amend, add or abrogate the constitution (Article 89). As the managing committee has been made all powerful precaution has been taken to keep it safe from the domination of any individuals. Therefore, its members are elected by the local units at the lowest level who reach the Central Managing Committee through elections at district and state levels.

How the Members of the Central Managing Committee are elected?

First of all the local unit consisting of minimum hundred or more members elect members from the district level. The district level Managing Committee elects its members for the State level managing committee which sends one third of its members to the Central Managing committee. Thus the Central Managing Committee is constituted through elections under Article 43. The elected president has power to nominate 51 eminent persons to the Managing Committee under Article 54.

Review of the Constitution of Present Managing Committee:

Keeping in view the above mentioned organizational structure we would review how and when the present managing committee was constituted and how far and at what level it represents its electoral college.

There are seventeen state level units of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind. The election process has been completed in fourteen of them where in total 54 lakh 54 thousand 823 primary members have been enlisted. 1008 local units were constituted. They elected 216 district level managing committees and in turn they elected 8355 state level members. Out of these 2785 members were elected to the Central Managing Committee. The chart giving below presents the organizational structure and electoral process. In this meeting delegates from 14 states are participating.  

Why this meeting has been convened:

Since Maulana Arshad Madani continuously took steps repugnant to the policy of the organization, he dissolved elected units, disintegrated the democratic organizational structure and tried to establish personal rules, the working committee of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind took strong notice and expelled him on 6^th March 2008 and he was replaced by Maulana Qari Syed Mohammad Usman, who was declared interim president. Maulana Mahmood Madani remained its General Secretary.

Since Central Managing Committee is the supreme body the working Committee referred its resolution for ratification and thus this meeting was convened. Its agenda is as under:

1.                  Reading and ratification of the resolutions of the previous meeting;

2.                  Secretary Report;

3.                  Ratification of the decision of expulsion of Maulana Arshad Madani and election of Maulana Qari Syed Mohammad Usman, Dy. Rector of Darul Uloom Deoband as the president of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind.

4.                  Disciplinary action against members involved in anti party activities;

5.                  Resolution on Terrorism;

6.                  Election of two vice president and treasure;

7.                  Deliberations on Sachchar Committee and Ranganath Commission report;

8.                  Reservation for Muslims and demand for bill to prevent communal riots;

9.                  Dalit-Muslim unity;

10.              Protection of Muslim Aukaf;

11.              Islamic identity and social reform;

12.              Resolution against Israel aggression in Palestine;

13.              Budget and Accounts;

14.              Condolence Resolutions;

15.              Other matters.

The procedure for the ratification of the expulsion of Maulana Arshad Madani and election of Maualan Qari Syed Mohammad Usman. A completely transparent procedure has been adopted. All the participating delegates will vote in writing whether they agree with the decision of working committee or not. They will further express their choice through voice vote in the presence of the following panel as well as media.