Mangaluru: Haji K S Muhammad Masood was on Saturday re-elected as president of the Muslim Central Committee of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts at a general meeting held at the Mini Town Hall in the city.
Prof Yousuf D, principal of Badriya College, conducted the election.
Khateeb Abdul Mannan Mufti of Kudroli Jamia Masjid performed the prayers. General secretary of the Committee Mohammed Hanif Haji presented the annual report and balance sheets audited by the auditors to the gathering.
Vice-president of the Committee Haji Ibrahim Kodijal presented the vote of thanks on the occasion.
The Committee stated in a press release that Masood, being the only member of the Committee to file the nomination papers for the post of the president, was elected unopposed for the next three years.
Masood, who became president of the Committee for the first time in 2003, has also been elected to the post for the third consecutive term. The last term too, he had been elected unopposed, said the Committee.
A senior politician too, Masood has served as a member of the Legislative Council, as Chief Whip and also as chairperson of the State Minorities Commission.
He has striven for social and community welfare as president of the Muslim Central Committee. He continues to involve himself in social service through the Committee and the 'Haji Karkala Sheikh Shabhu Saheb Memorial Trust', which was founded in memory of his father.
Masood has also played a major role in maintaining harmony between Hindus and Muslims in the region.
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Ranchi (PTI): Tribal icon Birsa Munda's great-grandson Mangal Munda, who was undergoing treatment at a hospital here after being injured in a road accident, died of "cardiovascular failure" on Friday, an official of the health facility said.
He was 45.
Mangal Munda breathed his last at 12.30 am at the state's apex health facility - Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences.
Munda sustained severe head injuries after he fell from the roof of a passenger vehicle in Jharkhand's Khunti district on November 25.
"Birsa Munda's kin Mangal Munda died of cardiovascular failure around 12.30 am. He was on a ventilator after being critically injured. We tried our best to save him but failed," RIMS Medical Superintendent Dr Hiren Birua told PTI.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office, Union Health Minister JP Nadda and the Jharkhand Chief Minister's office were in touch with the RIMS authorities in connection with Munda's treatment.