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Saturday, July 22, 2006

Call for 'Muslim Pradesh' divides SP

Press Trust of India
Posted online: Wednesday, July 19, 2006

New Delhi, July 19: The reported demand for a separate ‘Muslim Pradesh’ in Western UP by senior state Minister Mohammad Azam Khan has created voices of dissent in Samajwadi Party, with former Union Minister Rasheed Masood dubbing the proposal a ‘result of psychological imbalance’.

"The demand for a separate state for Muslims does not only deserve condemnation but it is also against the interests of the community," Masood, a Lok Sabha MP, said in a statement, adding ‘Muslims of India have already suffered a lot by the creation of Pakistan’.

Noting that communal forces day in and day out were trying to break the secular and democratic fabric of the country, Masood, who represents Saharanpur in Western UP, said, ‘a separate state on the basis of religion is being demanded, then what will be the fate of those who are living in other states belonging to the same religion’.

Expressing hope that Muslims by and large would not support such a proposal, he said such a demand is the ‘result of pyschological imbalance’.

He noted that such a statement always helps the communal forces rather than a particular party.

"I am confident that this is not the stand of the party but an individual," Masood, who was once a close associate of RLD leader Ajit Singh, said.

Khan, while reacting to the demand for a separate ‘Harit Pradesh’ by the Rashtriya Lok Dal, reportedly had said that instead of creating a ‘Harit Pradesh’, a ‘Muslim Pradesh’ should be created carving out districts of western region of the state.

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