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| Abbreviation | Popuar Front |
|---|---|
| Formation | 22/11/2006 |
| Type | Voluntary Organisation |
| Purpose | Non-profit (minority development |
| Headquarters | Deccan House, Bangalore |
| Region served | India |
| Official language | Tamil, Urdu,Bengali,Hindi, Kannada, Konkani, Malayalam, Meitei, Telugu |
| Chairman of the Front | E M Abdur Rahman |
| Main organ | State Presidents |
| Website | http://popularfrontindia.com |
The Popular Front of India is a confederation of minority society organisaitons which is active in southern India. Its slogan is Naya Karavan : Naya Hindustan, which means The new travelling group and the new India The Front was formed on November 22 2006 and is supported by the Karnataka Forum for Dignity (KFD), National Development Front (NDF), and Manitha Neethi Pasarai (MNP). These organisations are active in the states of Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu, respectively.
Background
A common platform with the name South India Council was formed as the outcome of a Regional Discussion attended by Muslim social activists and intellectuals from all the South Indian States at Bangalore on 25 & 26 January 2004. South India Council has taken up various issues related to community empowerment, especially reservation in education and employment. South India Council, with the cooperation of Confederation of Muslim Institutions in India organized a two day Workshop on Muslim Reservation on 26 & 27 November 2005 at Hyderabad. Mr. K. Rahman Khan, Hon’ble Deputy Chairperson, Rajya Sabha inaugurated the same. .
In the context of Central Government decision to introduce reservation in higher education, South India Council has organized three Regional Conventions on Reservation: at Calicut on 4 August 2006, at Bangalore on 5 August 2006, and at Chennai on 17 August 2006. A National Convention on Reservation in Higher Education was organized by the South India Council jointly with All India Milli Council at New Delhi on 29 August 2006. The dignitaries who addressed the convention include Mr. V. P. Singh, Hon’ble Former Prime Minister and Mr. Oscar Fernandez, Hon’ble Union Minister.
Confederation of Organisations
Different small organizations from different regions of India have proved their commitment to the common cause of social justice by actively involving in various programmes of the Council.
- Karnataka Forum for Dignity - (KFD)
- National Development Front - (NDF)
- Manitha Neethi Pasarai - (MNP)
- Lillong Social Forum (Manipur)
- Andhra Pradesh Association for social justice (Andhra Pradesh)
- Community Social and Educational Society (Rajstan)
- Nagarik Adhikar Suraksha Samithi (West Bengal)
- Goa Citizens Forum (Goa)
It is felt that if these three independent state level organizations work with more cooperation and coordination, the results would be more evident. The Secretariat of the South India Council which consists of leaders associated with these three organizations gave serious thought to this matter in different meetings. The issue was discussed within the respective organizations also. All the state organizations have given the opinion that each of them will continue to work separately as independent organizations, but they would work together as constituents of a federation. To mark a successful turning point to the above efforts, a joint meeting of the Secretariat of South India Council and representatives of KFD, NDF and MNP held 22 November 2006 at Calicut decided to launch Popular Front of India as a federation and approved the vision statement.
Popular Front of India declares that it will confine its activities to the South Indian States and presently this federation includes KFD, NDF and MNP.
Events
- Empower India Conference : In February 2007, the PFI organised a three-day Empower India Conference in Bangalore, which ended with a public rally that gathered over 30,000 people..In the conference, one of the main guest, Alan Hart, British journalist specialising in West-Asian affairs, said that he had unlearnt many stereotypes about the oppressed classes in the course of making a film on global poverty.
- National Political Conference
The Grand Public Meeting at Calicut beach on 17 February 29 which marked the conclusion of National Political Conference witnessed the merger of social organizations in eight states in to Popular Front of India. Along with the states presidents of NDF Kerala, MNP Tamil Nadu and KFD Karnataka which have already merged with Popular Front, heads of social organizations in Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Rajasthan, West Bengal and Manipur joined hands on the dais with the Popular Front chairman.
Social Activities
Their Popular Front and its allies actively involve fight against corruption and other social issues.
School Chalo Program
The organization conducts School Chalo program each year during the June-July period when the school re-opens. During this campaign, they conducted various awareness program and promotion packages to send the poor and discontinued students to school .
Reservation for Oppressed
Mass demonstration and rallies are conducted by Popular Front of India to make common people aware about their right to get education and Job. They have conducted parliament marchParliament March for Muslim Reservation . They conducted caravans and awareness campigns in Cities like Kokata
Human Rights Movements
They work with diffrent Human Rights activists around india and work for bringing equal rights for people especially from deprived sectors like woman and down-trodden tribes and casts. There are many incidents where they face arrests during the protests and demonstrations when they led protests against police atrocities .
No terror related spurt in Kerala: center
After a lot of baseless allegations made by media, ministry of home affairs (MHA) Tuesday informed lok sabha that no terror related activities spurt in south India including Kerala. While responding a question of K P Dhanapalan MP, Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Makan made clear that “Available input do not indicate spurt in terrorist/extremist activities in southern state including kerela. However, recently one incident of chopping of the palm of one lecture has come to notice and matter is being investigated by kerala police.”
Ajay makan further informed the house that “center government has not received any proposal form state government of kerela for imposing a ban on popular front of India.”
Earlier, Home Minister P. Chidambaram also rubbished media reports of government planning to imposing a ban on popular front of India.
"Love Jihad" against Hindus and Christians
Further information: Love JihadIn October 2009, Indian Express reported that Muslim radicals affiliated to the Popular Front of India have been engaging in a "Love Jihad" in Kerala, whereby Muslim men were trained to seduce college-going Hindu and Christian girls to marry them and then forcibly convert them to Islam. Hindu and Catholic groups in the state expressed alarm at this trend and have been working together to protest this. The Kerala High Court has resolved to probe the matter. In a recent raid, the state police also recovered pronographic CD's allegedly belonging to victims of Love Jihad.
Connection with other terror networks
The Indian Intelligence Bureau (IB) has recommended the Indian Home Ministry to ban the organization Popular Front of India as it has links with international terror outfits like Lashkar-e-Toiba, Al Qaeda and Taliban.It also has recommended to hand over the case of hand-chopping of professor to National Investigation Agency.
They also run Sharia Courts- Darul-Khuda with its chairman at Erattupetta and those various branches are also under police scanner.
The Indian Military Intelligence is also conducting probe on the involvement of Popular Front of India on terrorist activities. Some of the pamphlets recovered by Police Commissioner Manoj Abraham has been handed over to Military Intelligence as it indicated that the outfit is monitoring the military installations.
The Popular Front of India is also accused of blocking the wall construction of Naval Armament Depot, Cochin, Kerala in company of a local member of Kerala Legislative Assembly.
Anti - India rants
In 2006, the PFI brought out Thejas, which has its pet themes. The ‘Kashmiri militants’ are referred to as ‘fighters’. The newspaper carries dramatic stories about the “life of victims of police atrocities”, violation of human rights, fake encounters and regularly features anti-West rants
References
- "Muslim bodies float front". The Hindu. 2006-12-12. Retrieved 2007-02-21.
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- Muslim Bodies Flots
- See the background section in site popularfrontindia.com
- Summery section : popularfront-india.com
- "`Create broad-based alliance of all oppressed sections'". The Hindu. 2007-02-18. Retrieved 2007-02-21.
- Alan Hart addressing in Empower India Conference
- exposes malpractice goa poll officers
- Dharna in front of Passport Office
- school chalo program
- School Chalo Program
- Popular Front to Hold Parliament March for Muslim Reservation
- Parliament March
- http://www.punjabnewsline.com/content/view/23295/191/ National Campaign for Muslim Reservation programme in West Bengal]
- Demonstration
- Popular Front cadre court arrest
- ^ http://www.indianexpress.com/news/kerala-hc-wants-probe-into-love-jihad/523630/
- http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Love-Jihad-racket-VHP-Christian-groups-find-common-cause/articleshow/5117548.cms
- http://www.ucanews.com/2009/10/13/church-state-concerned-about-love-jihad/]
- http://www.kaumudi.com/news/071110/kerala.stm#12
- http://www.manoramanews.com/cgi-bin/MMOnline.dll/portal/ep/mmtvContentView.do?contentType=EDITORIAL&contentId=7528735&tabId=14&BV_ID=@@@
- http://mangalam.com/index.php?page=detail&nid=320268&lang=malayalam
- http://www.indianexpress.com/news/blood-on-their-hands/644789/5
External links
- Create broad-based alliance of all oppressed sections, The Hindu, Feb 18, 2007
- Video summarizing the Empower India Conference