Scholars, religious leaders reject NPR at Jamiat Ulema conclave

Feb 23, 2020

New Delhi: A number of scholars and intellectuals hailing from different faiths on Saturday gathered here under the banner of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind rejected the National People’s Register(NPR), saying its was gross violation of Article 14 of the Constitution.

A “Delhi Declaration” adopted after a 4-hour brain-storming session urged all the state Governments to immediately suspend the NPR process, and also appealed to all the Law and order enforcing agencies to respect the constitutional rights of the people of India to protest peacefully.

The Resolution passed on Saturday condemned the ”targeted killings of peaceful demonstrators” by police firing in various states specially Uttar Pradesh.

The scholars and religious leaders condemned the indiscriminate arrest of people under sedition and similar draconian laws and demanded their immediate and unconditional release and withdrawal of all the charges against them.

They demand adequate compensation for physical and material damages and psychological distress caused to people and institutional properties across the country.

”The state has become a laboratory of state repression on peaceful dissent. We condemn the police firing, damage to property, the arrest of innocent people and the unprecedented levying of penalties on civilian protesters.

”We salute the multi religious peaceful protest by youth, students and women in many Shaheen Bagh/s across the country,” the Delhi Declaration said.
Feb 23, 2020

New Delhi: A number of scholars and intellectuals hailing from different faiths on Saturday gathered here under the banner of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind rejected the National People’s Register(NPR), saying its was gross violation of Article 14 of the Constitution.

A “Delhi Declaration” adopted after a 4-hour brain-storming session urged all the state Governments to immediately suspend the NPR process, and also appealed to all the Law and order enforcing agencies to respect the constitutional rights of the people of India to protest peacefully.

The Resolution condemned the ”targeted killings of peaceful demonstrators” by police firing in various states specially Uttar Pradesh.

The scholars and religious leaders condemned the indiscriminate arrest of people under sedition and similar draconian laws and demanded their immediate and unconditional release and withdrawal of all the charges against them.

They demand adequate compensation for physical and material damages and psychological distress caused to people and institutional properties across the country.

”The state has become a laboratory of state repression on peaceful dissent. We condemn the police firing, damage to property, the arrest of innocent people and the unprecedented levying of penalties on civilian protestors.

”We salute the multi religious peaceful protest by youth, students and women in many Shaheen Bagh/s across the country,” the Delhi Declaration said.

The resolution was drafted by a committee headed by former Union Minister Rashnam Khan, and consisting of Abusaleh Shariff, John Dayal, Anil Chamadia, M Qasim Rasool Ilyasi, Dhanraj Vanjari and Owais Sultan Khan etc.

The scholars and religious leaders who participated in the meeting inc lude Maulana Qari Mohammd Usman
Maulana Mahmood Mahmood Madani, Kamal Farooqui, Abu Saleh Shariff, Abu Bakar Sabbaq, Ambarish Rai
Amrik Singh Bungar,M M Ansari, Asif Anzar Nadvi, Bellaiah Naik Tejavat, Dalip Nim, Mavalli Shankar, John Dayal, K Rahman Khan, Ovais Sultan Khan, M J Khan, Minakshi Sakhi, Mujtaba Farooq, Shabbir Nadwi, Narender Kumar Sharma, P M A Salam S Q R ilyas, Sami Salmani, Shakil Ahmad Syed, Nadeem Khan, Zisan Ahmad, Khalid Ansari, Mallavi Pawan Kumar, Jitendra Daksh, Bishambhar Patel, Peer Khaliq Ahmed, Qari Syed Mohammad Usman Mansoorpuri, Rahul Chandan, Rakesh Bahadur, Rakesh Rafiq, Dungar Ram Gedar, Dharampal Kartaria, B R Bhaskar Prasad, Sushil Gautam, T K John, Dhanraj Vanjari, Dr. A D Sawant, V K Tripathi, Gulzar Singh, Haji Mohammad Haroon, Vedpal Singh, Jaipal Singh, Ranjeet Singh, Tej Singh, Priyadarshi Telang, Ratnesh Katulkar, Mohammad Sajid, Imtiyaz Peerzade,Mushfique Raza Khan, Syed Shafiullah, Maulana Abdul Wahid Khatri.

—-India News Stream