Khaleequr Rahman: Muslim Leadership in India

Khaleequr Rahman: Muslim Leadership in India: "After independence, we have not produced leaders like Moulana Azad, Mohammed Ali Jouhar, Khan Gaffar Khan, Kidwai saheb etc. It is not that..."

Muslim Leadership in India

After independence, we have not produced leaders like Moulana Azad, Mohammed Ali Jouhar, Khan Gaffar Khan, Kidwai saheb etc. It is not that the muslims are not capable of leadership but the people are so much divided that they dont want to accept any one person as their leader today and we are all divided and still talk about the unity. Unless, the muslims zero on some body as their leader, our community would always be struggling to resolve their issues and would always be playing the blame game. India is a country which has given muslims its due place and respect with absolute freedom of speech, freedom to practise our religion and follow our personal law. I would like to ask my brethren which country in the world has given so much privileges to muslims. Such privileges are not even available to muslims in the islamic countries where their voices are curbed. Barring incidents like Godhra, Malegoan, Samjhota express, Ajmer sheriff blast and Mecca Masjid blast, there has always been communal harmony in the country. We all know who is responsible for these massacres, blasts etc., it is the same people who murdered Mahatma so we need not be surprised that they are the traitors who are all the time working master mindedly to dis intigrate the country and disturb the communal harmony. At this juncture, what we are really missing is the true, honest leadership in Muslims, the leadership which ran the freedom movement of the country with Gandhi ji and Pandit ji. Babri Masjid is an issue in its own place and needs to be resolved as the verdict of the Supreme Court has put the matter on the back burner.

It is quite unfortunate that for every untoward incident, we are blamed and blamed by whom, the Sangh Pariwar and the BJP and for every blast we are held responsible and by whom again by Sangh Pariwar and BJP. But as we all know god also softens the hearts of the terrorists and he did that in the face of Aseemanad who confessed the truth in front of the magistrate embarassing the Sangh Pariwar and BJP and bringing them under the frame, the frame of a terrorist. Till yesterday the muslims were being alleged as terrorist and today, a simple boy from Hyderabad Kaleem with his behavior melted the heart of Aseemanad which led to his confession. Unfortunately, here again we are facing the leadership crises and the lack of strong and powerful leadership in muslims, we are not able to propogate this issue and take it to the people of the country exposing the real culprits. The media has done a fantastic job in this regard and our government should be given the full credit for exposing the culprits before the nation.

According to a very old saying, the function of leadership is to produce more leaders and unfortunately this is missing because our muslims leaders are competing among themselves and in the process the interests of the community are sacrificed. It is high time that a selfless leadership is required to lead the India and Indian Muslims. Basically, the Allah has made the humanity as Asrhaf ul Maqluqaat, that means the supreme among his creations. They are born with the leadership qualities but becoming a leader is being honest and selfless. Unless a leader has these two qualities, there will not be impact in his speeches and his statements. Next thing which is important to be a good leader is to be fearless. The most important trait of leadership is the vision. Unfortunately, our muslims leaders dont have the vision for the community and the nation. And even if they have the vision, they have down sized it under the circumstances.

I feel we have potentially good people to be the national leaders. Mohammed Azharuddin, has got an enormous mass appeal and he is selfless. he is picking up fast and needs to emerge as the muslim leader of the country. The other person is Omar Abdullah. I am highly impressed with this man. He is class apart.

My suggestion our former cricketer is to embark on the roads and go for the talent hunt among the muslims to find the leaders of tomorrow. he should be visiting all the parts of the country with a pre-planned programme and at every district level, he should be hunting for the talent and beleive me there is enormous talent. Azharuddin saheb, you can lead this a movement with the support and the blessing of the high command and the party and especially under the guidance of Dig Vijaya singh saheb and Rahul Gandhi. And in the process, he will emerge as the leader of the muslims and the strongest leader. In turn, the new leadership will emerge among the muslims and the party will also be highly benefitted and where ever he will be going, you will activating the cadre and youth will be attracted and get associated with the Congress Party. There we see the Muslim leadership emerging!

Khaleequr Rahman: Mohammed Azharuddin As a Cricketer

Khaleequr Rahman: Mohammed Azharuddin As a Cricketer: "Mohammad Azharuddin is my favorite cricketer of all time and it may not be an exageration if I say the worlds all time favourite. I followe..."

Mohammed Azharuddin As a Cricketer

Mohammad Azharuddin is my favorite cricketer of all time and it may not be an exageration if I say the worlds all time favourite. I followed Mohammad Azharuddin keenly since the initial years of his illustrious career. There are quite a few cricketers I regard highly, but it is Azharuddin I liked the most. You will know why as you wil read.

The first thing I would like to write about Mohammad Azharuddin is his selflessness. Mohammad Azharuddin is one of few Indian cricketers who did not play for records. Some of the so called legends always play for their records. Azhar always kept the interest of team above his own records. He never bothered about records and fittingly played 99 test. He does not need 100th test match under his belt to prove his credentials. It was sad to see the career of a selfless cricketer end abruptly and unceremoniously in the backdrop of match fixing charges. It is high time that the BCCI should consider using Azhar's servcies and lift the Ban.

In my opinion, Mohammad Azharuddin as a cricketer was a blend of hard work and genius. I feel that Cricket came to him as a god gift. He made a fairytale debut to his test career. He captured the imagination and fascination of the cricketing world when he scored three consecutive hundreds on his debut.

Mohammad Azharuddin was the best or among the best in every department. He was the best batsman in the Indian batting line-up across all formats of the game. In fact Azharuddin was one of the leading batsmen in the world during first part of his career. People may argue that Sunil Gavaskar was better than Azharuddin. Sunil Gavaskar had a slight edge over Azhar in test cricket a he had the ability to stay on the wicket without scoring the runs, but in one day cricket Azhar was ahead of Sunil Gavaskar. In later years, Sachin joined Azhar as the best batsman in the Indian team, and later as an opener Sachin became the most productive batsman of the Indian team courtesy.

Mohammad Azharuddin was inarguably the greatest Indian fielder of his time and arguably the greatest Indian fielder of all time. He was supremely fit, and rarely let the ball go past him. His throw to the stump was impeccable and he hardly ever missed the target. I remember vividly him running out Salim Malik throwing the ball from the boundary as Salim Malik had slowed down approaching the wicket taking the second run. The two other cricketers who could match Azhar's skill as fielder are Mohammad Kaif and Yuvraj Singh. These two cricketers are as great fielders as was Azharuddin, but they cannot aim at stump as sharply as Azharuddin did. Mohammad Azharuddin was also sharp catcher in slips. People regards Rahul Dravid as the best slip fielder. But let me assure you, Dravid does not even come near Azharuddin in terms of fielding, including at slip.

Mohammad Azharuddin is arguably one of the three greatest Indian captains of all time. In the recent times we have not seen or heard about a captain of Azhar's ability. It was Azhar's decision to promote Sachin to the opening slot and then persist with him as an opener that saw Sachin score those many one day hundreds. Before being promoted to the openings slot Sachin did not have a single hundred in one dayers in about 80 games. There are a couple of his decisions that comes to mind immediately. The one to get Sachin to bowl the last over of the famous match against South Africa when India narrowly won what was thought to be a lost cause is part of Indian cricket folklore.  I do not rate Sourav on par with Azharuddin as a captain. Sourav was hardly a good captain. It was the emergence of players like Sehwag and Zaheer Khan coupled with brilliance of some other players under Sourav saw Sourav succeed as captain. Moreover Sourav never won any major one day trophy. Sourav of course underachieved as a captain for the kind of talented players he had playing under him. I pray that Azhar will be back on the cicketing circuit soon with a bang as he is known for.

Khaleequr Rahman: Kavita Daugther of KCR threatens to demolish statu...

Khaleequr Rahman: Kavita Daugther of KCR threatens to demolish statu...: "Telangana Jagruti, the cultural wing of the TRS, on Monday threatened to vandalise the statues of the Telugu luminaries' on the Tank Bund o..."

Kavita Daugther of KCR threatens to demolish statues once again

Telangana Jagruti, the cultural wing of the TRS, on Monday threatened to vandalise the statues of the Telugu luminaries' on the Tank Bund once again if they are re-installed before the creation of Telangana state. I think it is not enough that they have brought the black spot on Hyderabad and the Deccani Tehzeeb. Even though those statues were of the eminent personalities from Andhra, but they are the ones who have contributed a lot to Andhra Pradesh and demolishing the statues is like demolishing your own values which TRS is known for. Hyderabad or the Telangana is not the jaagir of TRS Chief KCR. It belongs to the people living here.

After undertaking a rally on the Tank Bund here on Monday, Telangana Jagruti president and TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao's daughter Kavita said, no statue should be re-installed until the new state is created. "Our activists will not hesitate to demolish those statues if they are installed before T state is formed," Kavita said and added that this was the T Jagruti's view and not necessarily of her father KCR's or that of the TRS.

Led by Kavita, about 50 members of the Jagruti and Telangana Writers Association took out a "Swabhimaana Yatra" from Katta Mysamma temple on the Lower Tank Bund road to Potana statue demanding the government to not to re-install the vandalised statues.

Addressing the gathering, she said after the formation of Telangana, the people of new state would decide which statues should be installed on the Tank Bund.  She should first be treated for her mental imbalance.

Telangana Writers Association members Deshapati Srinivas, S Srinivas Singidi and J Gowrishankar said the writers association will organise a meeting with all Telangana writers next week and finalise the names of the Telangana luminaries whose statues should be installed. The association will also hold a series of meetings in every district from next month to condemn the 'onslaught on Telangana culture' by the Andhra people.

Meanwhile, Andhra writers and intellectuals on Monday demanded that all the demolished statues be re-installed immediately.

Khaleequr Rahman: TDP filed petition against Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy

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