‘Secular’ job fair to counter discrimination - Times of India Report

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MUMBAI: The discrimination against management graduate Zeeshan Khan by a diamond exporting firm, which refused to hire him because of his religion, continues to rankle the city. However, many in the community are responding constructively to the unhappy episode. While Indian Union Muslim League city president Parvez S Lakdawala has promised jobs to 10 non-Muslims in his firm and those of his other Muslim friends, corporator Mohsin Haider held a "secular" job fair in Andheri on Saturday.


India's integrity lies in its pluralism while discrimination will tear apart the country's secular fabric. Ten non-Muslim aspirants will be immediately employed in my company and those owned by many Muslims in the city. It is to awaken the conscience of those companies and firms who practice absurd and divisive discrimination in recruitment," said Lakdawala. He said his party has decided not to protest on the streets against the injustice to Khan, but denounce it through "Gandhigiri." "Gandhiji taught us to remain non-violent even in extreme provocation. Religion has never been and should never be the criteria for recruitment. The decision to place 10 non-Muslims in Muslim-owned firms is a symbolic protest," said Lakdawala, a Bandra-based builder.

Haider, who also heads an NGO, Khidmat Organisation, along with Association of Muslim Professionals held an annual job fair in Andheri on Saturday. "After we heard of the injustice to Zeeshan, we called our festival 'secular' though it has always been so. Around 25 companies participated in the fair and gave jobs to 5,000 candidates," said Haider. AMP's president, Amir Idrisi, while denouncing the diamond firm's brazen discrimination, called upon Muslim youths to work harder and become indispensable to a globalised economy.

All India Milli Council (Maharashtra) general secretary M A Khalid , demanded suspension of the license of Hare Krishna Exports Pvt Ltd, which denied a marketing job to

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