Rizwan Ahmed elected as president of HIF Qatar
Qatar, Jan 18: Rizwan Ahmed from Mangaluru was unanimously elected as the president of the Highland Islamic Forum of Qatar here on Friday.
The election was held at the annual general body meeting of the forum at Doha. Forum outgoing president Suhaib Ahmed presided over the meeting and explained about the forum and its services.
In the meeting, Safakath Hussain was elected as the general secretary and Shaikh Faisel as the treasurer of the forum.
Sheikh Faisel presented the financial report. Fahim Naufal Ahmed welcomed the gathering while Mohammed Faisel proposed vote of thanks.
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Cong chief Kharge writes to PM Modi, calls for dialogue with all parties on caste census
New Delhi (PTI): Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to draw upon the Telangana model for the caste survey, remove 50 per cent cap for reservation and immediately implement Article 15(5) providing for reservations for SCs, STs and OBCs in private educational institutions.
In a letter to Modi, Kharge also called on the prime minister to have a dialogue with all political parties soon on the issue of the caste census.
"Conducting any exercise such as the caste census which gives the backward, the oppressed and the marginalized sections of our society their rights cannot and should not be considered divisive in any way," Kharge said.
"Our great nation and our large-hearted people have always come together as one whenever needed, just as we have done after the recent cowardly terrorist attacks in Pahalgam," he said in his letter to Modi dated May 5.
The Congress believes that conducting the caste census in the comprehensive manner is absolutely necessary to ensure social and economic justice and equality of status and opportunity as pledged in the Preamble of our Constitution, Kharge said.
Sharing Kharge's letter on X, Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said, "Following the CWC meeting on May 2nd, the Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge ji wrote to the PM last night on Mr. Modi's sudden and desperate U-turn on the caste census - even as the nation's anguish and anger at the brutal Pahalgam terror attacks continued unabated."
"Kharge ji has made three very specific suggestions," he said.
