The Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), held an appraisal meeting here about contesting the Bhopal parliamentary seat in the ensuing lok Sabha elections 2014.
SDPI national general secretaries AM Faizy from Kerala and advocate Sharfuddin from Kanpur attended the meeting as national observers held in Hameed Manzil the other day. In the meeting, various social and literary organisations along with intellectuals, professors, advocates, poets and social and human right activists participated in the meeting and expressed their views over the subject.
The overwhelming view that filtered down in the end was that SDPI should contest the ensuing lok Sabha elections 2014 and the participants in the meeting promised to extend their moral, financial and physical all out support for the party. The unanimous opinion of the speakers was that the SDPI should contest the elections from Bhopal with advocate Sajid Siddiqui, president of SDPI Madhya Pradesh unit, to be the candidate of the party whose image as an honest, hardworking and affectionate leader is well known to one and all.
Those attended the meeting amongst others included; Prof. Zameeruddin; Abdul Ahad (former Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami, Madhya Pradesh); Hakeem Maulana Ahsan Ali Khan (Dar-ul-Uloom Taj-ul-Masajid); Prof Mateen Ahmad Siddiqui (MMIM); Adv. Khaleelullah Khan (ex-chairman Madhya Pradesh Minorities Commission); Mohammad Mahir (Madhya Pradesh Vikas Parishad); poet Wafa Siddiqui (vice president, All India Ahle Hadees); Maulana Masih Alam and Ateeq-ur-Rahman (both Tameer-e-Millat); advocate Abdul Hameed (Jamiat-e-Ulama); Prof Hameedullah; Abdul Wahid Naqvi (Jamaat-e-Islami); advocate Usha Ingle; advocate Seema Khan; Archivist Muzaffar-e-Islam; Masood Ahmad Khan (Coordination Committee of Indian Muslims, Madhya Pradesh unit); advocate Mohammad Ayub; advocate Ansar Qureshi; Ayaz Qamar, Shabbeer Baig and others.
AM Faizy speaking on the occasion said that he was overwhelmed seeing bonhomie shown towards SDPI and the promise to extend support to SDPI candidate for Bhopal parliamentary seat.