Muslim organisations from the State capital have appealed the people to donate generously for Jammu and Kashmir flood victims.
A public meeting addressed by Bhopal Shahar Qazi Syed Mushtaq Ali Nadvi and All India Muslim Personal Board member Arif Masood was also held in this regard at the Moti Masjid on Thursday. The meeting organised by the J&K Volunteer Students Bhopal was attended by large number of people from the city.
Shahar Qazi Syed Mushtaq Ali Nadvi addressing the gathering on the occasion said that it is the collective responsibility of all of us to help those who are in need due to natural calamity. “We should feel our responsibility and think that what would have done if faced the situation that people of J & K are facing. Donate generously as per the capacity by every mean so that we could help those victims hit by the natural disaster,” he added.
Shahar Qazi also called on the people to pray for the flood victims and come forward to donate cash, clothes, grains and other utility material as much as one could.
All India Muslim Personal Board member and former state Congress spokesman Arif Masood in his address said, “Bhopalites have always remained in front for extending helping hands to disaster hit people of the country. Whether it was earthquake in Gujarat or the violence in Assam, people of the city have come forward to help the victims. I am hopeful that the people of the state capital would once again come forward to help the flood victims of J & K and would donate generously.”
Masood further said that a camp for collecting the material to be donated by the donors has been started in the parking of the Iqbal Maidan that would continue tillOctober 4. Students from Kashmir would remain present in the camp and would with all honesty deliver the donated goods to the
victims, he added.