Sto­ry by JESSE RAMDEO

The An­ju­man Sun­nat-Ul-Jam­mat As­so­ci­a­tion (AS­JA) is dis­tanc­ing it­self from the po­si­tion be­ing tak­en by the head of one Mus­lim group in a lead up to the Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

The group is­sued an of­fi­cial state­ment, yes­ter­day, in re­sponse to state­ments is­sued by Ummah TT and the Mus­lim Fed­er­a­tion, that they were throw­ing their sup­port be­hind the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) and Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad Bisses­sar SC.

Ac­cord­ing to AS­JA's Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary, Rahi­mool Ho­sein, con­trary to re­ports that Mus­lim lead­ers have thrown their sup­port be­hind Mrs Per­sad Bisses­sar, AS­JA re­mains apo­lit­i­cal.

Ho­sein said mem­bers of AS­JA were not in­volved in Sun­day’s meet­ing, which in­clud­ed of­fi­cials from Ummah TT and the Mus­lim Fed­er­a­tion.

He said while AS­JA mem­bers were free to sup­port any po­lit­i­cal par­ty they wished, it was in­ap­pro­pri­ate for of­fice hold­ers to speak on the mat­ter pub­licly.