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Zafar Sareshwala, the Tainted Businessman: Surrendering the cause of minorities since 2002
Pratik Sinha February 10, 2014 |
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Zafar Sareshwala: Legitimizing the perpetrators of 2002 Riots
Few Muslims, incidentally wealthy, seem to believe that surrendering to the tormentor is the only way to coexist with the majority community and do business with them! Zafar Sareshwala, a tainted businessman, has gone a few steps ahead and is busy wiping the blood of the hands of Mr. Modi.
Mr. Sareshwala organized the Ummat Business Conclave 2014 on 7th February, with the motto of Business in Harmony at the Riverfront to show case corporate culture of Muslim business community and help them network with the Hindu majority. As it was bound to happen, neither the Muslim business community nor the Hindu counterparts turned up to oblige Sareshwala.
Empty Chairs Galore at the Ummat Business Conclave 2014
The empty chairs were the eloquent witness to the failure of Mr Sareshwala to gather the Muslims crowd to present them to Mr. Modi who was neatly dressed up in his designer suit to “grace” the occasion. Less than a hundred persons turned up in the Conclave and perhaps in frustration Modi did not speak of the ‘harmonious business development’ between the communities but told the motley crowd that Gujarat Government will help the Muslim boys develop manual skills! Perhaps Modi recalled his speech in Bahucharji, Mehsana district, on 9 September, 2002, as a part of his Gaurav Yatra, where he derisively spoke about closing down relief camps. Let’s see what BJP’s PM Candidate’s vision for Muslims boys was back then:
What brothers, should we run relief camps? Should I start children-producing centres? We want to achieve progress by pursuing the policy of family planning. We are five, they have 25! Can’t Gujarat implement family planning? Whose inhibitions are coming in our way? Which religious sect is coming in the way? Why is money not reaching the poor? If some people go on producing children, their children will do cycle puncture repair only.
People like Zafar Sareshwala will never understand that the dignity and standing of the minority community which is never earned by bending backwards and crawling before the tormentor. Neither did Mir Jafar who betrayed Siraj-ud- Daulah, the last free Nawab of Bengal.
Due to the betrayal, Siraj lost the battle of Plassey that started the rule of the East India Company in 1757.
The minority question has never been resolved by any nation-state and the parliamentary democracy has only exacerbated the contradiction. Political parties wedded to capitalism seeks power to rule and to that extent, the minorities are important.
Some parties appeases the minorities whereas other appease the majority. In 2002, Modi butchered the minorities and won over the majority. Being the poster boy of the majority, Modi has managed to escape the justice delivery system and to help him out, people like Sareshwala add their voices to legitimize the perpetrator.
We ordinarily do not question the motives of persons taking a particular political position; but this post will remain incomplete if we do not bring to the notice of the readers, the serious allegations reported by the Gujarat daily, Gujarat Samachar, on 7th February
regarding the irregularities committed by Sareshwala in connection with the affairs of his company- “Parsoli Motors”. SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) had passed an order on July 31, 2013, against Mr Sareshwala’s company cancelling their registration with National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock exchange. The order published on a
website called “Watch Out Investors“ states:
12. I, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred upon me in terms of Section 19 of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 read with Regulation 28(2) of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Intermediaries) Regulations, 2008, hereby
cancel the following certificates granted by the Securities and Exchange Board of India to Parsoli Corporation Limited, as stock broker:
a. SEBI Registration Nos. INB/ INF 230806837 on the National Stock Exchange of India Limited
b. SEBI Registration Nos. INB/ INF 010806835 on the Bombay Stock Exchange Limited
Yet Mr. Sareshwala does good business in Gujarat selling his BMWs
including the BMW X6 Activity Coupe(Xdrive30d) he gifted to Salman Khan. Perhaps Sareshwala needs Modi as much as Modi needs him.