NEW DELHI: Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) students union has expressed shock over the decision of the Jammu and Kashmir government to ban socio-religio-political organisation Jamaat-e-Islami, J&K under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
In a statement a spokesman of the union said that “the Government has unleashed a state of undeclared emergency curbing dissent in all forms. It has come as a shock that a socio-religio-political organisation Jamaat-e-Islami, J&K has been banned.”
“The nation must be told that Jamaat-e-Islami, J&K runs as per its constitution wherein Article 5, clause 3, clearly mentions that the organisation strives through democratic and constitutional methods. Jamaat is neither an underground organisation, nor is it a militant outfit. It has been part of the electoral process in the state in1971, 1975, 1977, 1983 and 1987. It is only after mass rigging of elections in 1989 that Jamaat abandoned the electoral process,” the statement said.
“We, at Aligarh Muslim University have taken strong notice of the repulsive response against the ban in Jammu and Kashmir, and want the Government of the day to come clean on charges against Jamaat,” it added.