Just like double citizenship that US and other countries grant their citizens, a study should be carried out if a coalition of Muslim political parties can offer a multiple party membership to Muslims. Strong Muslim candidates may be selected by a grand coalition high command, to place winnable candidates in any particular constituency, from any political party in the group.
Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai
ghulammuhammed3@gmail.com
Reflecting for Us
Apart from the impressive photograph on the cover page of Radiance (14-20 September) Dr Waquar Anwar’s interview of Dr Azman Syed Ahmad, PAS leader of Malaysia, is worth reading and reflecting for us in the Indian context. PAS has been successful in creating an impact in a plural society like Malaysia where there are a large majority of people of Chinese as well as Indian origin, both Hindus and Muslims. PAS has experimented successfully, as said in the interview. Inclusion of people of other communities as members of the party is an eye-opener for us in India.
A more detailed study of its constitution and working will be enlightening. It is requested that Dr Anwar write his experiences of meeting other personalities during his Malaysian travel and points which may be useful in the Indian context for us.
H Abdur Raqeeb
ICIF, New Delhi
Website Not Updated since June 2014
I was very much delighted to receive the news that the report on Aslam Gazi’s lecture was published in your esteemed magazine. This news, I learn, has generated a very good feedback and Aslam Gazi has been approached by many centres, especially Delhi and Goa to conduct similar lectures. I am however yet to receive my subscribed copy due to postal delay. Eager to read it, I logged on to the Radiance website, but was left disappointed as the last copy updated there dates back to June 2014! I wanted to spread the said report on social networks via a web-link but was thus unable to do so.
E-copies are the need of the day and its importance can never be over-emphasised in today’s times. I request you to personally look into the matter to make sure that the website is maintained on a weekly basis so that fresh editions of this magazine are available whenever required.
I am looking forward to reading my favourite magazine online the next time onwards.
Dr. Parvez Mandviwala
Mira Road, Mumbai
Horse-trading in Delhi
It is shameful for BJP to have come to power at the centre, apparently with a clean election majority, to revert to the days of corruption that marred practically all of India’s past ‘democratic’ elections. They should have started with new zeal and sincere spirit to rid India of the malaise of political corruption. For a moralist, winning election by hook and crook is not worth the effort and a blot not only on its name and goodwill but a betrayal of India’s finest ideals of probity and strict following of its legal framework. BJP should bravely accept the mistake, and announce publicly that it disassociates itself with any such cloak and dagger hare-brained schemes to play with people’s votes.
If India has got rid of Congress over its rampant corrupt practices in practically every sphere of public life, the new dispensation should have realised how passionately people are looking towards a new dawn of probity and integrity. The AAP sting video showing BJP’s high official in Delhi offering 4 lakh rupees each for the purchase of ‘elected’ MLAs has shattered people’s trust with the new resolve to give India a new life, new direction, new hope. BJP should still rise up and clean its stable. It is better to sit back and wait for people’s mandate, rather than to go back to the era of horse-trading which is nothing but an open fraud on the people of India.
Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai
ghulammuhammed3@gmail.com