Jamaat-e-Islami Hind has done exemplary work by providing relief for the people affected by devastating flood in Kerala, extending short-term relief measures and planning to rehabilitate the flood-victims in the long-term phase. He asked the government not only to increase relief measures but accept relief material from other countries as well. Seeing the scale of devastation and destruction, the government should declare it as a national disaster,” said Nusrat Ali, Vice President of the organisation while addressing reporters at monthly press briefing of the Jamaat at its headquarters on September 1.
On the question of refusal of the government to accept aid relief from the UAE, the JIH leader said that the government is neither extending whole-hearted relief measures nor accepting relief from other countries. He added that relief and rehabilitation measures should not be confined to boundaries. Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari, Ameer, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, in reply to another question said that the dilly-dallying approach towards relief in Kerala reminds us of what one of the sangh leaders had said to ignore Kerala because only the Muslims and Christians in the State are in trouble which is highly objectionable. It seems there is ideological angle other than any kind of legal hurdles in refusal to aid from the UAE.
Secretary General of JIH, Mohammad Salim Engineer, while welcoming the death penalty awarded to Mandsaur rape criminals in only 59 days, said this system of speedy justice should also apply to mob lynching cases and to the Gujarat 2002 pogrom in which hundreds of minors were raped and killed. He also reminded the government about delay in justice in some of the recent cases of rapes in Kathua, Unnao, Haryana and Delhi and demanded speedy justice. In reply to a question, the JIH Secretary General said that all those working to provide justice for the marginalised or are raising fingers against the establishment are being branded as anti-national or are arrested. The statement made by the Supreme Court after the arrest of human rights activists that dissent is the safety valve of democracy and if it is removed it will burst like a pressure cooker itself speaks volumes about the given issue.
Mohammad Ahmed, Secretary of National and Community Affairs, JIH said that the Jamaat along with APCR is trying to provide maximum help possible for all those whose names were missing from NRC list in Assam. According to him, Jamaat has hired around 200 professionals and have selected 33 districts in Assam to help all those in need after July 30 when NRC draft was declared.