For pursuing the overall objective of empowerment of the Muslim Community through recognition as a Backward Class with a separate Sub-quota for reservation, several National Organizations of the Muslim Community have formed a Joint Committee of Muslim Organizations for Empowerment (JCMOE). The Organizations which are currently associated with the JCMOE are;

1. Jamiat-ul-Ulema Hind, Maulana Arshad Madni, President,

General Secretary Maulana Mahmood Madni, MP,

2. Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Maulana Jalaluddin Umri, Amir

3. All India Majlis-e-Mushawarat, Janab S.Shahabuddin, President

4. All India Milli Council, Dr. Manzoor Alam, General Secretary

5. Movement for Empowerment of Muslim Indians, Janab Moosa Raza, President

6. All India Momin Conference, Janab Furkan Ansari, MP, President

7. All India Shia Conference, Janab Shamim Kazim, President

8. Markazi Jamiat-e-Ahle Hadith, Maulana Asghar Imam Mahdi Salafi, General Secretary

9. Imarat-e-Sharia, Bihar, Maulana S.Nizamuddin, Amir

The JCMOE has requested Mr. Justice A.M.Ahmedi former Chief Justice of India and Mr.Syed Hamid Chancellor, Jamia Hamdard to be its patron.

The JCMOE has a National Advisory Committee consisting of the Patrons and the heads of the associated organizations with Janab S. Shahabuddin as Convener. It has also established a National Organizing Committee consisting of representatives of some associated organization: Janab Mujtaba Farooque (JIH), Janab Naved Hamid (MOEMIN), Janab A.H.Nomani (JUH), Dr. Z.I.Khan (AIMMM), Maulana Aquilur Gharvi(AISC), Dr.S.Q.R.Ilyas ((Afkar-e-Milli), Mr. Amanullah Khan (U.P.Rabita Committee), Dr. K.K.Usman (Forum of Faith and Fraternity) The first four shall act as Joint Convener.

The JCMOE has formulated a Charter of Demands in the light of the UPA Manifesto, Prime Minister's Assurance to Minorities, the New 15 Point Programme for Minority Welfare and the Recommendations of the Sachar Committee and of the Mishra Commission.

The JCMOE is of the considered view that the assurances and the recommendations for Muslim uplift are not being implemented adequately and properly with the urgency that it deserves. The objective of the Committee is to mobilize public support for urgent action in this regard, particularly for the acceptance of the Charter of Demands by the Government.

The tentative Programme is to organize public meetings at the local, district and state capitals and to present Memoranda to the DM's and the Chief Ministers in the districts and states of Muslim concentration. For this purpose, the JCMOE is nominating various associations and individuals as Conveners of State Organizing Committees for organizing mobilization at local, district and state levels in order to press both Centre and State Governments for urgent action. For this, they shall establish liaison with local and district organizations and prominent social workers who are sympathetic to the Muslim cause.

At the national level, the JCMOE is calling on national parties and their leaders to request them to raise the question of uplift of the Muslim Community in the coming session of the Parliament and press the Government to agree to a discussion on the subject with a view to formulate a national consensus on strategy and action.

The JCMOE proposes to organize a Dharna by Muslim leaders when the Parliament reopens and hold a mass rally in Delhi towards the end of the monsoon session to draw national attention to the problems faced by the Muslim Community.

Mujtaba Farooque

Naved Hamid

A.H.Nomani

New Delhi, Dr.Z.I.Khan
4 July, 2007 Conveners, National Organizing Committee

Joint Committee of Muslim Organization of Empowerment

D-250 Abul Fazal Enclave,

Jamia Nagar, New Delhi-110025

Tel.: 26946780, 26947346