... Secular democracy is under frontal attack ... One who cares to look around cannot fail to sit up at the systematic and persistent strangling of the secular identity of our polity. There are justified apprehensions that India of tomczrow may not be the India of today. This is, if the challeng es to secular democracy are not realised in full significance and are not dealt with in full measure ...

The planned and determined saffron forays to demolish secular polity and to establish a Hindu Rashtra od-facto ... are well supported by the camouflaged moves on the flanks to promote 'de jure' establishment of the fascist order. The Government seeks to exploit (the) National Commission "to review the working of the Constitution" ...

... The BJP is, as reiterated even in its latest manifesto of 1998, "committed to the concept of 'One Nation, One People and One Culture". The concept rings the fascist death-bell to India's rich cultural pluralism. Indeed, the setting up of a Commission to review the Constitution of India is a major .move in aid of the Sangh Parivar's designs ...

The national scenario is disturbing concerted effort is the need of the hour to face the merging challenges. The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) upholds the cause of secular democracy and the minority rights. It has always worked for the welfare, uplift and the legitimate rights of the Muslims, other minorities and the deprived. The IUMI reiterates its offer to work in co-operation with other democratic forces. But one thing is clear Insha-Allah, the IUML will never allow any harm to the secular-democratic character of the polity.

... But the Muslims are painfully aware of the acts of omissions and commissions, deliberate or otherwise, of the democratic political forces. Sangh Parivar is artfully exploiting these acts in furtherance of their nefarious objectives ...

... Muslim hopes have been frustrated by every party ... By now, almost every political party has ruled at the centre and in the states, but the minority problems have only worsened.

... It is the political unity of the Muslims under one flag which alone can create the political. Pressure necessary to solve the Muslim problems and contribute to the economic and educational progress of the Muslims ... The IUML which is the representative political party of the Muslims at the All India level working since independence, ensures that Muslims rise as a party in parliament and state legislatures. Herein lies the key to political power which is ."sine qua non" for Muslim advance ...