He was arrested among the many president of native clergyman Maulana Taukia Raza Khan (IMC) and despatched to a 14-day choose throughout a protest in assist of the “I Love Muhammad” marketing campaign final Friday following a conflict in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly.
Bareilly police accused 65-year-old Tauqeer Raza of being the “mastermind” of the violence.
A outstanding face of the Barreelvisunni group, Taukia has had a major influence on the spiritual and social fields of the Barreilly area.
He’s a descendant of Ahmed Raza Khan. That is the founding father of Barelvi Sect, generally referred to as Aala Hazrat. He’s the youthful brother of Maurana Subang Raza Khan, the “Gadi Nasine” (custodian) of Valerie Darga, the shrine of Ahmed Raza Khan.
Political stint
Taukia, whose father, Rehan Khan, beforehand served because the MLC for the Congress Occasion, has been politically lively for over 20 years.
In 2001 he launched his personal political outfit. The IMC struggled to realize traction past Barreily, but it surely maintained a significant influence on the town and has proven its greatest assist base right here.
Tauqeer has joined a mainstream political get together
The IMC made its election debut within the 2001 elections at Bareilly Municipal Company, which gained a number of seats. Nonetheless, the get together was unable to broaden its footprint.
Over the subsequent few years, Taukia expanded his get together’s assist to varied events in UP. He supported Congress within the 2007 state meeting elections, however later coincided with the Samajwadi Occasion (SP). At one level he additionally supported the Bahujan Samaj Occasion (BSP). “This highlights the continued affect of Maulana Taukya Raza Khan and its strategic position in strategic politics,” Nafeez Khan mentioned.
The IMC challenged the 2012 parliamentary elections, inserting candidates in 12 seats. The outfit was even in a position to win one seat within the Bozipura constituency, the place candidate Shajir Islam defeated SP Virendra Singh Gangwar.
Raza was later appointed by the then Akhilesh Yadav-led SP authorities as Vice-Chairman of Uttar Pradesh Handroom Company, which will likely be in control of the place of Minister of State. Nonetheless, in September 2014, he resigned from the publish, accusing the Akiresh authorities of not stopping the 2013 Muzafarnagar riots.
Controversy
Tauqeer has been concerned in a number of controversies over time. He’s presently booked by Bareilly police in seven of the ten circumstances in reference to Friday’s violence, and has bids which have allegedly been positioned to incite the Muslim group by means of his speeches and extra.
That is the second time he has been arrested and despatched to jail.
In 2010, throughout his tenure within the Mayawati-led BSP authorities, the Barely police arrested him for allegedly scary the mob to bask in violence throughout the procession of Eid Milad-un-Nabi. To ease tensions in Valerie’s group, a few of it remained below the curfew for a number of days, however police later ended their investigation into him and submitted a report recognizing him with a clear chit.
In March 2023, Moradabad police submitted an FIR towards him to be able to allegedly promoted hostility among the many group over his remarks about “Hindu Rashtra” at a metropolis gathering. He had requested these defending Hindu Rashtra to register circumstances of treason.
In the identical yr, Bareilly police positioned Taukia on home arrest after saying plans for the “Tirangayatra” to protest the lynching of two Muslim youths in Haryana by cattle vigilantes. He referred to as for better safety in mosques and madrasas, and referred to as for the ban on Hindu costumes to “attempt to create division among the many communities.”
In June 2015, he sparked debate by writing letters to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, demanding a whole ban on the bloodbath of cattle.
Beforehand, in 2007, he sparked controversy when it was mentioned that Delhi had introduced a 5 rupees reward to the pinnacle of Bangladeshi author Taslima Naslen if she didn’t ban her entry into the nation.
In 2022, Tauqeer appeared within the information when his family and ladies’s rights activist Nida Khan joined the BJP.
