March 20 is a historic day, commemorating the day in 1927, 98 years ago, of the Mahad Satyagraha, when a struggle to force open the lake at Mahad to all castes and faiths took place under the leadership of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar. Each year this moment of reckoning is celebrated and a large section of people from all corners of the country visit the historic site at Mahad, the Mahad Chavdar Tale (lake).
This year, on March 20, 2025, 98 years after, a unique act of solidarity took place, second year running, organised by the Indigenous Muslim Forum Organization of Pune along with the Muslim community brothers of Mahad: a Roja Iftar Party in honour of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar at the site!
While guiding this Roja Iftar program, during the month of Ramzan, the president of the native Muslim Forum Anjum Inamdar said that it is very important to engage the ideology of Prophet Muhammad, Sufi saints along with the great revolutionaries of society. Maharashtra, the land of Sahu-Phule-Ambedkar is today witnessing gross instances of discrimination causing schisms and even violence in society. With manipulated history as the tool, young persons are being misled through motivated cinema. The police and administration is complicit and inactive when hate speeches that provoke are being made by the powerful.
“Leaders” today are at work to cause divisions instead of unity. There is a need to connect with each other need to understand the true history of this holy land and Maharashtra. Inamdar challenged all members of his community and others to come together and establish equality, brotherhood to take the country and society forward.
Maulana Hasrat Mohani and Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar performed Roja Iftar together in Delhi on October 13, 1949 to remember the moment and remind the community of that Roja Iftar party was organised for the second consecutive year at Chavdar Tale at Mahad at Chavdar Tale (lake).
On this occasion, at Mahad, the manager of the Babasaheb Ambedkar National Monument, Prakash Jamdade, literateur, Kalim Azim, President of Jamatul Muslimin Mohalla Charitable Trust Mohammad Ali Chiplunkar and member of the Revolution Bhoomi Social Organization Anant Kamble, along with senior social activist Mushtaq Qazi, Sadiq Sheikh, Mahad’s Jamate Islami Hind Officer Fasiuddin Falahi, Maqsood Sheikh Sir, Pune Municipal Corporation, former corporator Himali Navnath Kamble and Popat Kadam all participated. Dignitaries like Arbaz Khan, Fayyaz Rajnag, Syamud Khan, among others were also present.
Many women, mothers and sisters from many districts from Maharashtra participated in the Roja Iftar Party program. Senior women activist of a Buddha Vihar Mandal from Nagpur gave blessings to all the activists who were part of the Roja Iftar party. Dr. Many historical works of Muslim brothers along with Babasaheb Ambedkar were shared during the programme.
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