Welfare Party: Intellectuals comment harshly, target leadership

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By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net,

New Delhi: “It’s a disaster,” says head of a prominent Muslim community think tank, referring to the launch of Jamaat-e-Islami backed political party, Welfare Party of India. It will prove to be the biggest hurdle in the way of forging unity among the community.

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Welfare Party of India: Towards Value-Based Politics

December 10, 2011
http://karnatakamuslims.com/en/welfare-party-of-india-towards-value-based-politics/
Mr. Mujtaba Farooque, National President, WPI

By Zeeshan Lohani*

The Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) has taken a historic step by launching a new political party the Welfare party of India on April 18, 2011. Better late than never, now the speculations about the JIH’s active participation in politics should be laid to rest. While launching the party’s flag, the newly elected party president, Mr Mujtaba Farooque, said that the party aims at realising a value-based welfare state governed by the principles of judicial freedom and equality.

Jamaat-e-Islami steered launching of Welfare Party of India

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New Delhi: After discussing for over 30 years, passing through different experience for over a decade and testing waters for 6 years, and after intense preparations for over 2 years, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind has successfully steered launching a “non-communal” political party named Welfare Party of India (WPI) on 18th April in New Delhi. It was in 1977 when Jamaat-e-Islami in principle took a stand in favor of Secular Democracy to defeat dictatorial tendencies evident during 21 month long black period of emergency imposed in 1975. Jamaat workers joined a political movement led by Jay Parkash Narain, Syed Abdulllah Bukhari and others, which culminated in regime change in New Delhi.

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Welfare Party against FDI in retail sector

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New Delhi: The Welfare Party of India has criticized the Union Cabinet approval of relaxing the cap on FDI in retail sector. The bill approved by the Cabinet entitles foreign direct investment to 51 percent in multi-brand retail and 100 percent in single-brand.

Welfare Party Concerned Over “Unconstitutional Attitude” of Government

http://beyondheadlines.in/2011/08/welfare-party-concerned-over-%E2%80%9Cunconstitutional-attitude%E2%80%9D-of-government/

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New Delhi: Welfare Party of India (WPI) has criticized the government’s attempt to put restrictions on holding peaceful protest in capital.

S.Q.R. Ilyas, General Secretary of WPI said in a press statement that the Government has adopted “unconstitutional attitude” both inside and outside parliament. “The government has lost its balance and this imbalance is on display time and again. We saw it when they ousted Baba Ramdev and we saw it now,” he added.

Ilyas too invoked the “emergency days” and demanded that the government must find a necessary balance that strengthens the constitutional rights.

He also called the government’s version of the Lokpal Bill as “toothless that defeats the every purpose it is meant for,” and demanded a comprehensive anti-graft law.

WPI has also demanded the release of that all companions of Anna Hazare detained.

Welfare Party to be inaugurated in UP on 21st July

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Lucknow - 19 July 2011: Promising value based politics, the newly formed Welfare Party of India (WPI) will launch its state unit in a convention on Thursday at Lucknow. Formed three months ago, the WPI is the political arm of six decade old Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, a socio-religious Muslim organisation.

Muslims debate need for new Islamist-backed political party

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April 22, 2011 14:53 IST

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The men behind the new party insist that it is not a Jamaat front, though critics argue otherwise, pointing out that the top-brass of the party are mostly senior Jamaat activists, reports Yogi Sikand 

The floating of a new political party, styling itself the 'Welfare Party of India' [ Images ], by the Jamaat-e Islami Hind late last week has, predictably, set off a vigorous debate in Indian Muslim circles.

The men behind the party insist that it is not a Jamaat front, though critics argue otherwise, pointing out that the top-brass of the party are mostly senior Jamaat activists and that everyone knows that the party has been set up under the orders, and with the blessings, of the Jamaat top-brass. The party, for its part, explains its agenda in predictable terms: of promoting 'genuine' democracy, secularism, human rights, social justice and so on. The subtext that underlies its justification for its formation is that Indian Muslims have been denied justice by existing political parties, and so a new party is necessary to secure justice for them, in addition to other marginalised communities.

Jamaat Islami launches Welfare Party of India

http://www.mathrubhumi.com/english/story.php?id=115622
Posted on: 20 Oct 2011


Kozhikode: Welfare Party of India, a new political party led by Jamaat e-Islami, was formed in the state including the dalit organizations and fishermen community. The party came into force last April at the national level. On Wednesday, national general secretary SQR Ilyasi announced formation of the party in the state. Though the prominent personalities in Jamaat were absent, the movement wholly is controlled by them.

The state president of party is Dr Koottil Muhammedali who is the founder president of Jamaat youth wing solidarity. Party state vice-president Abdul Hameed Vaniyambalam is a member of the higher-level committee of Jamaat. But prominent leaders, including Kerala Amir, were not present in the party formation. Though both leading fronts in the state denied their support during the last election, the new party will move ahead in cooperation with all.

Indian Welfare Party strongly condemns US crackdown on occupiers

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New Delhi, Nov 17, IRNA -- Welfare Party of India strongly condemned brutal methods and use of excessive force by US authorities to crackdown on-going Occupy movements in various cities across the United States.

Using force, dismantling and tearing the tents and evicting the peaceful protestors by mass arrests, the US government is trying to silence the dissenting voices, read a statement mailed by the party to IRNA Wednesday.
P. C. Hamza, General Secretary of the Party stated that this action will only bring disgrace and disrespect to the image of the United States. The General Secretary stated it was least expected from a nation that champion of freedom of expression and organization, a nation that has directly involved in many sovereign nations for regime change in the name of bringing democracy and ensuring freedom of expression for the people there.

Welfare party of India launches in West Bengal

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By Jitender Singh - Oct 18th, 2011 (No Comment)

Kolkata: The Welfare Party of India West Bengal convention asked the Mamata Banerjee government to implement the poll promises that were made to the electorate in general and especially to the Muslims.

Speakers at the convention reminded Mamata that it was the Muslims, who, while gracefully admitting that there  were no communal violence during the long left front rule, but were not emancipated at all in socio-economic fields, educational and employment sectors, electorally bid farewell to the left and let the TMC- congress combination in the convention lamented that the new Chief Minister, who keeps the minority portfolio with her has not taken initiative to solve the long pending demands of the community and the promises made by the CM herself.

Reaction mixed to new party

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• December 12, 2011 
• By DC Correspondent 
• WARANGAL

There is a mixed reaction from city's minority leaders towards the launch of Jamaat-e-Islami-supported Welfare Party of India (WPI), whose district office was inaugurated in the city on Saturday, a month before the formal state-wide launch of WPI in Hyderabad in January 2012.

Welfare Party against Muslim quota within OBC quota

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New Delhi: The move of the UPA Government to give Muslims quota within the OBC quota has not pleased many in the minority community. After some community intellectuals and Muslim caste leaders opposed the move, now Welfare Party of India has also come out against it, saying Muslims want their due share ‘from original bag and not from other’s bowl.’

The party while appreciating the proposal to give reservation to Muslims criticised the Congress-led UPA government’s stand as spelt out by Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid to include them in the 27% OBC quota.

Welfare Party launched in Kerala

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Kozhikode: The Welfare Party of India was launched in Kerala on Wednesday. Dr Kootil Muhammedali, former president of the Solidarity Youth Movement, was elected the first president of the party in the state.

Other office-bearers elected at the conference are Mr Kareeppuzha Surendran, Ms Prema Pisharadi, Dr P Ahmed Kunji and Mr Abdul Hameed Vaniyambalam (vice-presidents), Mr K Ambujakshan and Mr PA Abdul Hakeem (general secretaries), Mr PA Joseph, Mr KA Shafeeq and Ms Sreeja Neyyattinkara (secretaries) and Prof P Ismail (treasurer). A 30-member state committee also was constituted.

Ishrat Killing: Welfare Party asks BJP to sack Modi

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Submitted by admin7 on 22 November 2011 - 10:54pm

• India Politics
 
• Indian Muslim

By TCN News,

New Delhi: In the wake of the Gujarat High Court-appointed SIT finding that the Ishrat Jahan encounter was fake and staged, the Welfare Party of India has asked the BJP leadership to sack Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

After the killings in 2004, Gujarat police had claimed that Ishrat Jahan, the teen aged college student and her three accomplices were Lashkar-e-Tayyeba operatives and were on a mission to assassinate Mr. Modi. The four were gunned down in an encounter taken place near Ahmedabad airport on 15th June 2004.

Welfare Party enters Bengal, asks Mamata to fulfill poll promises

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• India Politics
 
• Indian Muslim

By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net,

Kolkata: The Welfare Party of India (WPI) launched its West Bengal unit on Sunday. The party leaders used the occasion to strongly criticize Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for not taking any initiative to solve the long pending demands of the Muslim community and not fulfilling the promises she herself made before assembly polls in April.

The West Bengal inaugural of WPI, the political arm of six-decade old Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, a socio-religious Muslim organization, was held in a mass convention at Mahajati Sadan Auditorium in Kolkata on 16th October, 2011. The convention was attended by several civil society representatives and hundreds of delegates drawn from across the state.

Welfare Party to be launched on Oct 19

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KOZHIKODE: The state office-bearers of the Jama'at-e-Islami will not be under the leadership of the Kerala unit of Welfare Party of India, the political wing of the organisation.

The official launch of the Kerala unit will be held at the Tagore Hall here on October 19.

The adhoc committee constituted for the formation of the party will meet in the presence of national leadership in the morning to elect the state office-bearers, the names of which will be announced at the conference.

Ilyas Azmi removed from Welfare Party

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Submitted by admin3 on 19 November 2011 - 9:43pm

• India Politics
 
• Indian Muslim

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New Delhi: Taking immediate action against his overtures with BJP, Mr Mujtaba Farooq, president, Welfare Party of India, has removed Mr. Ilyas Azmi from the vice- presidentship and membership of the Party.

“Mr. Azmi has been advocating hobnobbing with the BJP and showing leniency. It was cleared unambiguously to him that it is against the basic policy of the Party and the Party is committed to value based politics. Being totally against communalisation and criminalisation of politics, the Party cannot have any adjustment with communal fascist forces and he was asked to refrain from that,” said Dr. S.Q.R. Ilyas, general secretary, Welfare Party. He stated that in the light of credible reports that Mr.Azmi is spearheading launching of Rashtriya Inquilab Party, a new political outfit to go for alliance with the BJP, this action has been taken.

At a conference today in Lucknow, Mr Azmi launched his own outfit and offered to support BJP on some conditions.

Welfare Party Terms Communal Violence at Rajasthan’s Bharatpur ‘Barbaric’; Calls For Providing Peace, Security to People

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Posted by admin India, Latest News, Lead, Society Thursday, September 29th, 2011

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New Delhi: The Welfare Party of India termed the recent incident of the police firing at Gopalgarh in Bharatpur District, Rajasthan, as a barbaric act, which proved the bias attitude of the police towards Muslims.

Interview with Mujtaba Farooq, President of Welfare Party of India

 http://www.khabrein.info/news/Interview_with_Mujtaba_Farooq__President_of_Welfare_Party_of_India_1305727228/

18 May, 2011

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Mujtaba Farooq is a man in a hurry. After working selflessly in Jamaat-e-Islami Hind for last several decades, first as its Maharashtra state amir (president) and then a powerful secretary in its central office (markaz) in New Delhi, he was made the President of JIH backed newly launched political Party Welfare Party of India. Right now he is busy crisscrossing different parts of India trying to establish his nascent party’s chapters in different states of India. He sounds very confident while talking to Khabrein.Info editor Syed Ubaidur Rahman about the viability and success of his political party in the days to come. Read the excerpts

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Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on 8 May 2011 - 10:51am.

Ex Karnataka minister BT Lalitha Naik
Ex MP from SP and BSP, Ilyas Azmi
Dalit activist Rama Panchal
Chairman of Bihar minorty commission,Suhail Iqbal
Well known Salafi leader, Abdul Wahab Khilji
Safarul Islam Khan, who no need introduction
Yes....this team will create wonders.

Debunking myths about Welfare Party of India

 http://twocircles.net/2011may01/debunking_myths_about_welfare_party_india.html

Submitted by admin3 on 1 May 2011 - 10:51am

By Dr Syed Muneeb Ahmed,
Launch of a new political party is not an item worthy of much news in India. Unless of course, it has an acclaimed film-star embarking upon his political aspirations, or a disgruntled political heavyweight parting ways from his old clan. The launch of Welfare Party of India (WPI) had neither. The glamour was absent so were the tried and tested faces of Indian politics. Hundreds of such ‘political wannabes’ take birth across the country and undergo political senescence even before the first vote is cast. Nothing worth mentioning, one might think. What then, made this innocuous bunch of people garner such hostility right at the outset?

Ishrat Killing: Welfare Party asks BJP to sack Modi

 http://twocircles.in/2011nov22/ishrat_killing_welfare_party_asks_bjp_sack_modi.html

Submitted by admin7 on 22 November 2011 - 10:54pm

By TCN News,
New Delhi: In the wake of the Gujarat High Court-appointed SIT finding that the Ishrat Jahan encounter was fake and staged, the Welfare Party of India has asked the BJP leadership to sack Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

Welfare party of India – Is the JIH Trying for a Back Door Entry?

 http://intellibriefs.blogspot.com/2011/06/welfare-party-of-india-is-jih-trying.html

June 19, 2011

R. Upadhyay

The Welfare Party of India (WPI) is a new addition in the list of over half a dozen existing Muslim parties in India with Mujtaba Farooque who was till recently the secretary of the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind(JIH)as its president and Syed Qasim Rasul Ilyas another prominent member of JIH as general secretary. JIH was formed in April 1948 as an offshoot of Jamaat-e-Islami(JEI) which was launched as a religio-political Islamic movement in 1941 by a puritan Islamist Abul Ala Maududi (1903-1979).