மாபியா தலைவர் அப்துல் லதீப் ஷேகின் மகன் முஷ்டாக் ஆர்.எஸ்.எஸ்ஸில் இணைந்தார்

மாபியா தலைவர் அப்துல் லதீப் ஷேகின் மகன் முஷ்டாக் ஆர்.எஸ்.எஸ்ஸில் இணைந்தார்

From Latif's family to Sangh Parivar
22 Mar 2008, 0236 hrs IST,TNN
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AHMEDABAD: He sits on the same chair of the Popatiyawad office in Dariapur that his dreaded dad once used. But the last thing Mushtaq (31) wants is to follow the footsteps of his father - Abdul Latif Sheikh - Ahmedabad's last don who was killed in an encounter in 1998.

Mushtaq, the eldest of Latif's six children, has joined a Sangh Parivar outfit in an effort to wipe clean any taint that remains from his father's underworld reign that was at its peak in the 80s. He is one of the 15 members of the national committee of the ‘Rashtravadi Muslim Manch' (RMM), an outfit that approves of the ideology of the RSS.

For the last one year, Mushtaq has kept himself busy with programmes of the RMM, the latest being the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of 1857 uprising. Mushtaq is all for banning slaughter of cow progeny and abhors terrorism.

Mushtaq claims the RMM gets good response from Muslims in Gujarat and he is now working to gather people for an RMM programme in the city next month. "We will call senior RSS leaders to address the meet. People come and listen to them articulating the Sangh ideology. Who would not like to live in peace after all?" he asks.

Mushtaq says: "My father never involved me in his business, yet it was difficult for me to create my separate
identity. I could not even do business properly. Everyone saw me in the light of my father. This nationalist
activity has helped me shed that image," he says.