New Delhi, Mar 3: Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, one of the prominent Islamic organizations of India, has released a 15-point public manifesto for Lok Sabha poll 2014 which includes right to livelihood and greater importance to education and health care.
Addressing media persons on the occasion of release of the manifesto here recently, Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari, the national president of JIH said that his organization would meet all political parties and ask them to include its demands in their manifesto. “We will support those parties who listen to our demands and assure us that they would fulfill them,” he said.
He clarified that JIH would neither support BJP nor Congress as the one parties ideology and policy are hateful and against minorities, while the another party has failed to address major problems of minorities including Muslims in last 10 years of its power.
“We will ask people to vote for non-BJP and non-Congress parties; if in any constituency only Congress candidate is able to defeat communal forces then they should support Congress,” he clarified.
Gist of the JIH's Public Manifesto
1. “Right to Livelihood” should be recognized as a Fundamental Right through constitutional amendment to ensure food, housing, clothing, education and healthcare to all citizens of the country.
2. Justice Ranganath Mishra Commission Report should be accepted and implemented.
3. The concept of Diversity Index as envisaged in Sachar Committee Report should be implemented in both government and private sectors. All government aids and grants should be based on the Diversity Index.
4. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) should be amended to guarantee employment for whole 365 days and to cover the urban poor under the scheme.
5. The Communal Violence (Prevention, Control and Rehabilitation of Victims) Bill should be passed and implemented honestly.
6. All central security laws like AFSPA, UAPA should be brought in alignment with the obligations of International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights. The torture and inhuman degrading treatment of detainees and prisoners should be banned.
7. An independent judicial commission should be established to probe all accusations of terrorist and disruptive activities; the accused should be tried in fast track courts; mechanism should be developed for reparation for victims; and errant officers should be prosecuted.
8. Private corporations and NGOs should be brought under the purview of Jan Lokpal Bill. Stringent action should be taken against corruptions. E-governance should be implemented to ensure fullest transparency.
9. The recommendations of National Police Commission should be implemented to make Police forces more professional and humane; and to make them more representative and unbiased, 25% seats should be reserved for minorities.
10. A comprehensive policy should be evolved for protecting the dignity of women and for controlling the sex crimes. Culprits should be sternly punished. Education policy should be amended to sensitize the society on moral and sexual discipline, and spread of pornography and nudity through media, films and erotic literature should be checked. Censor laws and rules should also be amended.
11. In the Union Budget, 8% of GDP should be allocated for education and 5% for health.
12. To rejuvenate agrarian sector, all the recommendations of National Commission for Farmers should be implemented; the corporate farming and future selling should be discouraged. A fund should be set up on the lines of Calamity Fund to help the farmers in case of loss of crops.
13. Taxes should be increased for super rich classes; the ratio of direct tax should be higher than indirect tax. Budget should be made more responsive to the needs of the disadvantaged sections of society viz. Dalits, Adivasis, Muslims, women, rural population, urban poor and the marginalized. There should be a “Muslim Component Plan” in the Five Year Plan.
14. Interest free finance should be introduced in the banking sector as recommended by the high level Committee on Financial Sector Reforms of the Planning Commission headed by Dr. Raghuram Rajan. There is a need for amendments in the existing laws so that the marginalized sections and minorities get benefit from the overall development.
15. The Constitution should be amended to make Parliamentary sanction mandatory for any major international treaty or basic change in Foreign Policy of the country. Good relations with neighbouring countries and South-South cooperation should be increased.
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