Imam Rasheed Karim, chair­man, Umah T&T/ Mus­lim Fed­er­a­tion is con­fi­dent that Mus­lims in T&T will play an im­por­tant role in the mar­gin­al seats in the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion.

“We want to make a dent in places like Moru­ga/Table­land and San Juan/Barataria and oth­ers. Be­cause of the mis­rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the PNM Gov­ern­ment, they have giv­en the elec­tion vic­to­ry to the UNC,” he said.

The fed­er­a­tion rep­re­sents 17 in­de­pen­dent Is­lam­ic or­gan­i­sa­tions in the coun­try that are not aligned to the biggest Is­lam­ic or­gan­i­sa­tions.

He es­ti­mates that there are at least 175,000 Mus­lims in T&T.

He al­so said that they had sent pro­pos­als to the cur­rent PNM ad­min­is­tra­tion but all of these have been ig­nored.

“Our group sent in 17 points deal­ing with crime, pover­ty, the econ­o­my and so on and we nev­er heard from the Gov­ern­ment.”

Ac­cord­ing to a state­ment from the group, Is­lam­ic lead­ers and com­mu­ni­ty ac­tivists will af­firm their sup­port for Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar leader of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC).

The event will be held on Sun­day at 10.30 am at the Fe­lic­i­ty Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre, Ca­can­dee Road.

The state­ment said more than 50 lead­ers from through­out Trinidad, most of whom pre­side over com­mu­ni­ties in the mar­gin­al con­stituen­cies, have agreed to come to­geth­er to pledge their sup­port for the UNC un­der Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

The agen­da for the meet­ing will com­prise short pre­sen­ta­tions from the fed­er­a­tion of­fi­cials on "top­i­cal is­sues that have sig­nif­i­cant­ly im­pact­ed the Is­lam­ic com­mu­ni­ty and great­ly in­flu­enced their de­ci­sion and their com­mu­ni­ties to back the UNC on Au­gust 10", the state­ment said.