All Party meet ends, parties “sing all is not well”. MIM Demands Presidents rule in AP.

Asaduddin Owaisi MP, and his party MIM, maintains the non comital stand, on Telangana.

As expected the exercise ended with no improvement on the present state of affairs in the state of AP. In fact all parties in a joint statement after the meeting have appealed to the people of the state to maintain law and order and peace and allow the democratic means to take the centre stage. 

But individually the parties look as before with no greater improvement in their stand, in favour or against the state of Telangana.

The Home Minister took the brief of the discussion he had with the political parties to the PM for appraising what had been discussed in the meeting.  A statement may come to this effect,  by the late evening.

The expectation is PC or PM may,  request again to all the parties who attended and the people of the state to have restrain and maintain peace and normalcy in all the regions of the state.

Meanwhile they may request the political parties to work for consensus, and hopefully govt may accept the demand by some  parties like, PRP and MIM, who wanted govt to form of a committee to discuss the issue for reaching to a broader consensus.

The MIM has kept its cards close to its chest. The Member of Parliament and Leader of MIM Assaduddin Owaisi remained uncommitted on the issue of Telangana.  He has neither supported its formation nor denied it. 

Earlier in the day the media reported MIM as  a party which may oppose formation of the separate state out of  AP. But that did not happen.

Speaking to the Media after the meeting the MP said that ” The Muslims are a party to the Issue”  without elaborating he said ” His party requested the govt in the view of the growing violence, failure to maintain law and order, economic crisis… the state should be put on President’s rule for bringing  back the normalcy in the state.

Assaduddin Owaisi also requested the govt.  on behalf of the party, for formation of committee if possible headed by a Supreme Court Judge and with bureaucrats, representation of all the parties to find a solution to  the issue. In the event of such committees formation the MIM will give its opinion on the issue then. In absence of such committee,  he said  MIM party will give their stand of the issue to the Home Minister.

This stand taken by the MIM is seen as political statement, with no clarity by some, and some appreciate it as a wise statement in  seeing the type of confusion prevailing in the state.

All the major parties to the dispute TRS, BJP, CPi, CON, TDP and PRP have maintained their earlier stand for and against  Telangana, the mood is dampened.  How the things will unfold after the final statement of the result of this meeting after consultation with PM by the HM will have to see. 

Has the state pulled in to further uncertainty, with no respite to the students, business small and big, officials, general public, of the state.

 This has become like,  IPL series,  only a few matches are played till now, their seems to be long way to go before the quarters, semis, and the finals are played.

 what will be the time frame  for this series,  even the managers of the game do  not know.  

How can we expect the teams to comment on. Like always the spectators are at loss,  this has become like Kotla Pitch the match is called off in the mid,  with the the people of  Andhra Pradesh on the recieving end.

Muslims Celebrate Eid ul Fitr, with Traditional Glory, Around the World. India will Celebrate on Monday.

 

Muslims around the world woke up Sunday and welcomed the end of a long month of fasting with hearty greetings of “Eid Mubarak,” or happy festivities.

Egyptian women perform the Eid al-Fitr dawn prayer at a stadium in Mansura, 120 km north of Cairo.

 

 

 

 

 

Egyptian women perform the Eid al-Fitr dawn prayer at a stadium in Mansura, 120 km north of Cairo.

The faithful were ushering in Eid al-Fitr — three days of celebrations that Muslims mark with joyous community prayers, acts of charity, visits from far-flung relatives, gift-giving and elaborate feasts.

“Think Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Year’s — all rolled into one. It’s that huge for us,” said Sajjad Aziz of Hoboken, New Jersey.

Islam follows a lunar calendar, and the timing of Eid al-Fitr varies around the world depending on when the crescent of a new moon is sighted.

So, while most countries — including the United States — observed Eid on Sunday, some will begin their celebrations on Monday.

The night before Eid, entire communities gather on rooftops, scanning the sky with giddy anticipation.

“It only needs one sighting of the moon in the whole country, and the whole nation erupts in cheers,” said Qazi Arif, 35, of Sirajgong, Bangladesh. “It’s a divine feeling, hard to describe.”

Eid al-Fitr bids goodbye to Ramadan — a month of dawn-to-dusk abstinence from food, drinks and other sensual pleasures. Muslims believe the Quran, the religion’s holy book, was revealed to Prophet Muhammad during Ramadan more than 1,400 years ago.

The Eid is one of two major holidays in Islam, alongside another called Eid al-Adha. The latter commemorates the prophet Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son, Isaac, for God.

On the morning of Eid, Muslims don new clothes and head to prayers that are often held in open fields to accommodate crowds too big to contain in mosques.

Those who can afford it donate a small percentage of their possession or its equivalent to the poor and needy so they too can avail themselves for the celebrations. Feasts await at every house.

“It’s a festival principally about community. We’re even asked to take a different route when we walk back from prayers so that we can meet different sets of people to greet and celebrate with,” said Wasim Iqbal of Karachi, Pakistan.

For Muslims in North America — and countries where they are the minority — Eid is a more subdued affair.

“If you have family close by, then you can kind of capture the mood that you remember from back home,” said Abdallah Gamal, a native of Egypt who lives in St. Louis, Missouri. “But it’s not the same.”

Because the U.S. Census does not ask about religious affiliation, it is difficult to gauge the Muslim population in the United States. The Pew Muslim American study conducted two years ago estimated it at 2.5 million, while the Council on American-Islamic Relations places it as high as 6 million.

On Saturday, both President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton offered greetings to American Muslims.

“We know there is more than unites peoples of faith than divides us,” Clinton said. “So as Ramadan draws to a close, let us hold on to that spirit of community throughout the year to achieve our common goals of peace, prosperity and stability.”

It is a message that Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, also shared during Eid prayers when he called on the Taliban to join the peace process in his war-weary country.

The day wasn’t one of universal comity, however.

In Yemen, the government and rebels accused each other Saturday of breaking a cease-fire they both asked for to commemorate Eid.

And Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei used his Eid sermon to launch another volley at the country’s arch-rival Israel and at Western powers.

“We’re not quite there, I’ll will admit,” said Mehreen Ali of Boston, Massachusetts. “But have you seen an Eid prayer? Rows and rows of Muslims all prostrating together in unison. It’s a feeling of such unity and brotherhood. You have to believe that with that spirit present, anything is possible.”

Muslims around the world woke up Sunday and welcomed the end of a long month of fasting with hearty greetings of “Eid Mubarak,” or happy festivities.

In india the Prime Minister of India in his message to the Nation and to the Muslims said.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday greeted the nation on the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr, saying the festival reflected the true spirit of India’s composite culture.

 Eid-ul-Fitr, to be celebrated on Monday, marks the end of the period of fasting during the holy month of Ramzan. Eid is celebrated on the first day of the Islamic month of Shawwal.

 “The festival commemorates austerity, brotherhood and the spirit of sharing. It reflects the true spirit of our composite culture. May the festival strengthen our resolve to promote tolerance and peace and live in harmony,” prime minister said.