Telangana: KCR picks up Mohammad Mahmood Ali as Home Minister
Hyderabad, Dec 14: In a surprising move, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao appointed Mohammad Mahmood Ali as the Home Minister in his newly constituted Cabinet.
The decision of the Chief Minister has created a surprise in the political circle as this is the first time that a Muslim minister was given the responsibility of Home portfolio. So far, the Home portfolio has allotted to the Reddy community in the state.
KCR has been taking various initiatives to appease the Muslim community which constitute 12.7 per cent of total population of Telangana. Though the Telangana Assembly has sent a proposal to the centre to give 12 per cent reservation, the centre has not cleared it. Now, the move of the Chief Minister is considered as a political strategy to concentrate on national politics. He has been wooing the farmers and minorities.
KCR selected only Mahmood Ali to be sworn in along with him in the first phase of the Cabinet formation on Thursday. It is said that the cabinet expansion is likely to take place on December 18. KCR has been sailing with the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) party and Chandrashekar Rao and MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi have planned to tour the country to organize minorities and farmers.
Mahmood Ali, a loyalist of KCR, was the Deputy Chief Minister
holding important portfolios of Revenue and Minorities' Welfare in the previous
cabinet.
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Jharkhand: 6 killed as SUV collides with truck in Hazaribag
Hazaribag (PTI): Six people, including three minors, died after an SUV rammed into a truck in Jharkhand's Hazaribag district, police said on Sunday.
The accident took place around 6 pm on Saturday in Danua Valley area, they said.
Officials had on Saturday evening said four people had died, but later identified two more bodies inside the mangled SUV.
Among the deceased were five members of a family, including three children, a police officer said.
“A 42-year-old man identified as Shiv Kumar Bhuiyan, along with his wife and three children, was travelling to Gaya from Dhanbad to attend a wedding ceremony, when the accident took place,” Barhi SDPO Ajit Kumar told PTI.
He said the SUV driver was speeding and tried to overtake a truck.
"The impact of the collision mangled the SUV," said Saroj Singh, the officer-in-charge (OC) of Chouparan police station.
The bodies have been sent for post-mortem examination.
