The MRM is the only niche organisation in the Sangh Parivar for Muslims and has senior RSS functionary Indresh Kumar as its chief patron
To provide sustenance to divorced Muslim women and educate their children, the RSS-affiliated Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM) has decided to launch a welfare fund which will be financed through contributions from the community.
"The MRM will start a Baitul Mal (fund) for divorced women and children. This will be financed through zakat contributions," MRM national convenor, Mohammed Afzal, told DNA.
The MRM is the only niche organisation in the Sangh Parivar for Muslims and has senior RSS functionary Indresh Kumar as its chief patron.
Afzal added that the fund would be channelized to beneficiaries who would be identified by its activists through the MRM's 'Shaheed Ashfaque Ullah Khan Memorial Trust.' The decision was taken in a recent meeting of the MRM.
The trust was inaugurated in Pune in 2015 by Kumar and has been named after freedom fighter and revolutionary, Ashfaque Ullah Khan, who was sentenced to death with his close friend Ramprasad Bismil by the British in the 1925 Kakori conspiracy case. It is headed by senior MRM functionary, Pune-based Latif Magdum.
"It is very surprising that except the MRM, no Muslim organization has started the Baitul Mal, which was prevalent in Islamic states earlier. The clergy only make speeches but do little concrete on the ground," charged Afzal.
The MRM will also launch a signature campaign against oral, one-sided triple talaq which is given at one go, which Afzal said had no precedence in Islamic laws and texts. He said it was followed only by the followers of the Hanafi school of jurisprudence.
"We will appeal to the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) to co-operate. The demand for ban on triple talaq is not an interference in our religious sphere but a social issue," he added.
On Republic Day this year, January 26, the MRM will organize flag hoisting programs at 10,000 madrassas, schools and Muslim mohallas across the country, said Afzal. The MRM has also pressed for a need for the government to form a consensus on the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) rather than push its way through.
In a bid to deepen its outreach among Muslims, the MRM was established in 2002 at the behest of then RSS chief K.S Sudarshan. Founded with the aim of bringing Hindu and Muslim communities in India closer, it was initially called 'Rashtravadi Muslim Andolan-Ek Nayi Raah' and was later re-christened as the MRM in 2005.
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