04-14-2006, 08:49 PM
<b>Resolve Kashmir issue, Muslim clerics urge PM</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Syed Sarwar Chisti, secretary of Ajmer's Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti shrine, and Maulana Mohammad Haroon of the All India Tanzeem Aimma-E-Masajid made the appeal in separate letters to the prime minister.
Both were clear in the quid-pro-quo they expected for supporting Gandhi's campaign in Uttar Pradesh's Rae Bareli constituency to return to the Lok Sabha after resigning her seat over the office of profit controversy.
<b>'Our support will only be given if she solves the problems of the people of Kashmir and Muslims,</b> especially the community's socio-economic backwardness,' Chisti said.
'<b>We appeal to Sonia Gandhi that if she wants the vote of the Muslim community, she should take concrete steps and measures for solving the Kashmir problem,' </b>Haroon said.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Here comes vote blackmail.
Both were clear in the quid-pro-quo they expected for supporting Gandhi's campaign in Uttar Pradesh's Rae Bareli constituency to return to the Lok Sabha after resigning her seat over the office of profit controversy.
<b>'Our support will only be given if she solves the problems of the people of Kashmir and Muslims,</b> especially the community's socio-economic backwardness,' Chisti said.
'<b>We appeal to Sonia Gandhi that if she wants the vote of the Muslim community, she should take concrete steps and measures for solving the Kashmir problem,' </b>Haroon said.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Here comes vote blackmail.