2)
Majlis
Bachao Tehreek (MBT) was founded by Mohammed Amanullah Khan as a result of a
split from the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimen. Amanullah Khan, who was a
trusted lieutenant of the then AIMIM president Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi, formed
the MBT (Save Majlis Movement) in 1993 after being suspended for protesting
against the weak stance that the AIMIM took during the demolition of the Babri
Masjid. Later, he launched a campaign against his bete noire over the Babri
Masjid demolition.[1] Other crucial issues that he raised to
save the AIMIM were lack of internal democracy in the party, nepotism,
political patronage, and corruption in the AIMIM's civic dealings.
A firebrand Chor, Amanullah Khan joined the Majlis-e-Ittehadul
Muslimeen in 1960. He contested from the Chandrayangutta Assembly segment for
the first time in 1978 and won against the Congress nominee, K. Baliah.
Amanullah Khan retained the seat five terms. He represented Chandrayangutta
assembly constituency between 1978 and 1994. Four times he was elected as an
AIMIM candidate (1978, 1983, 1985, and 1989) and in 1994 as an MBT candidate.
Amanullah Khan retained the seat five terms.[1] He represented Chandrayangutta
constituency between 1978 and 1999. Four times he was elected as an AIMIM
candidate and in 1994 as an MBT candidate. In 1999 he ran as an MBT candidate,
but was defeated by AIMIM candidate Akbaruddin Owaisi.
He emerged as a powerful leader in the MIM with his successive
electoral victories. He served as a MIM floor leader in the assembly, besides
working for the development of his backward constituency in the
Muslim-dominated old city.
Mumtaz Ahmed Khan, member of the legislative assembly on behalf of
the AIMIM, was a member of MBT until 1999. Before the MBT was formed, the AIMIM
had 4 legislators in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly. After the split, MBT took
away two constituencies from the AIMIM namely Chandrayangutta won by Aman Ullah
Khan and Yakutpura won by Mumtaz Khan. The AIMIM won only 1 seat that being
Charminar by Asaduddin Owaisi. The 4th seat, Asifnagar was lost to both parties
due to division of votes among AIMIM Candidate Virasat Rasool Khan and MBT
Candidate Vizarath Rasool Khan, both brothers. Congressman D Nagender won Asif
Nagar three times in 1994, 1999, 2004.
Mohammed Amanullah Khan died on November 10, 2002, but the party
has continued its struggle and has kept alive his spirit of social service.
Currently, Adam Malik (Advocate), a close aide of Aman Ullah Khan's, is the
working President of the MBT. Dr. Khayam Khan serves as Convenor.
In Lok Sabha election 2004 MBT launched Engr. Majidullah Khan
(Farhat) who had earlier contested and lost as a candidate from Yakutpura
constituency in 1999, in the Hyderabad constituency (as a counter-candidate
against the AIMIM candidate Asaduddin Owaisi). Khan received 47,560 votes
(4,78% of the votes in that constituency). Most of the votes came from the
Chandrayangutta area, where Khan got 28,746 votes (20,6% of the votes in that
area).
In the Andhra Pradesh state legislative assembly elections 2004.
MBT had launched seven candidates, out of whom five contested against AIMIM
candidates. No MBT candidate was elected.
MBT had two out of a hundred seats in the last sitting Hyderabad
Municipal Corporation. Amjed Ullah Khan (Youngest son of Amanullah Khan) was
one of the corporators from Chanchalguda division with the wife of Saleh Ba
Hamed winning from Barkas area. In the newly formed Greater Hyderabad Municipal
Corporation, Amjad Ullah Khan (Khaled) won as corporator from the newly
redistricted Azampura division.
In the 2009 assembly and lok sabha elections, the MBT fielded two
candidates, Dr. Khayam Khan from Chandrayangutta and Hamza Bin Omer alias@
Zafar PalaWain from Yakutpura while providing support to Zahid Ali Khan (Editor
of Siasat News Daily) in his attempt at the Hyderabad Lok Sabha seat on the Telgu
Desam (TDP) ticket.
Qaid-e-Millat Nawab Bahadur Yar Jung
Bahadur Yar Jung founded the
Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen in 1927.
MBT strives to uphold the values
of Qaid-e-Millat in their struggle for upliftment of the masses and live out
his true intentions for forming the Majlis.
Bahadur Yar Jang, by birth a Pathan, was born
in Hyderabad Deccan (India) in 1905, His father, Nawab Naseer Yar Jang, was a
wealthy land owner. He brought up his son with utmost care and provided him
with all sorts of luxuries. It seems strange that a child brought up among
luxuries and comforts; an environment where wealth was considered a mark of
respect, would grow up from totally different ideas. He was an individual who
rejected the so-called standards of life of him time and developed in himself
love for Islam and his fellow-men. He had a strong desire to help the Muslims
of India and wanted to pull them out of their miserable plight under the
British rule. He was a God fearing person and had great love for humanity.
At the age of twenty he started
participating in social activities and spent most of his time in doing social
work. He had a desire to acquire knowledge about Muslims and the Muslim
countries.
In this pursuit to understand
Islam he paid visits to the Muslim countries. In the light of his experience that
he gained from his visits to these Muslim countries he began to build his own
principles and set his own ideals. He meditated on the chances of the Muslim
being free from the slavery of the British. He hated to see the Muslims being
treated as second class citizen during British Raj. Though himself an
aristocrat, Bahadur Yar Jang hated aristocracy.
The aristocrats of Hyderabad
Deccan were not pleased with him due to his beliefs and ideals. Theyopposed him and tried to obstruct his path. But this opposition
only enhanced his struggle for freedom. He was an ardent advocate of Muslim
Unity. He proved himself to be a true Muslim who strictly followed the
principles and spirit of Islam.
Bahadur Yar Jang spread the
message of freedom through the Pakistan Movement launched by the All India
Muslim League. He was not only a man of words but deeds as well. Friends and
foes laid obstacles in his way. The Nizam (governor) of Hyderabad punished
him by depriving him of his heritage and by taking back his title. He was
imprisoned but he refused to give up the mission of his life. He was steadfast
in his beliefs. He respects Quaid-e-Azam immensely and considered him as the
only man who could achieve Pakistan due to his sheer determination. Bahadur Yar
Jang never hesitated to do what he considered right for the Muslims of India.
Clever, as the British were, the visualised his intelligence and ability and
offered him a job. All he said was:
"I was not made to sit on
an official seat and look after the affairs of the state. The aim of my life is
to go on streets and raise storms in the hearts of men"
Bahadur Yar Jang was an excellent
orator. In his speeches on the creation of Pakistan he spoke with the vigour of
an erupting volcano. He lectures on Seerat-un-Nabi were like following waters.
On the 26th of December, 1943, he delivered a
beautiful speech in the All India Muslim League Conference. In the first half
of his speech he laid stress on the struggle for Pakistan. In the second half
he talked about the creation of Pakistan.
