Irregularities in selecting Hajj pilgrims, alleges woman
Bengaluru, Jan 23: Nusrat Raza, a beneficiary who was denied Hajj pilgrimage, alleged that both State Haj Committee and Minority Welfare Department have involved in irregularities in selecting Hajj pilgrimages for the present year.
Speaking to reporters at the Press Club here on Wednesday, she said that during present year, the central Haj Committee has fixed 6,701 quota for the state. But more than 14,000 people have applied for it. But the state Haj Committee, after selecting the beneficiaries under the central quota through Khurra (lottery), has informed the beneficiaries that you were not selected.
The Committee has conducted the Khurra process at Vidhana Soudha Banquet Hall on January 16 in which Minority Welfare Minister Zameer Ahmed Khan, Committee president Roshan Baig, CEO Sarfraz Khan, Ministers, Religious leaders and state committee members were present.
As planned, in the beginning, Khurra of Bagalkot district was completed and later, Bengaluru Urban district held. In the same way, all 30 districts were covered. In that process, for Bengaluru urban district, lottery was held for 395 covers and in each cover, there would be three names. In the same way, total 994 names in 395 covers were selected and announced their names. But on the next day, she received a message that she was not selected for the Hajj pilgrimage from the Haj Committee, she alleged.
What went wrong?
The lottery was fixed on January 16. In order to avoid last minute lapses or mistakes, the officials have conducted rehearsal on January 15. Surprisingly, during the lottery on January 16, all the 395 covers of Bengaluru urban district were conducted as per the rehearsal list of January 15. This mistake was disclosed only after completing all 30 districts, she said.
In order to rectify the mistake of rehearsal, the officials held the lottery of Bengaluru urban district as per the January 16 list. So, due to the mistakes of officials, the beneficiaries who were selected during January 15 have lost the opportunity of pilgrimage. So, the minister should interfere and ensure justice to them. They were not interested for conflict. But they should be given opportunity. Otherwise, they would take up legal fight, she warned.
Action against erring officials: Minister Zameer Ahmed Khan
No irregularity was occurred in the present year selection process of Hajj pilgrims. Instead, some confusions were created due to some technical problems, for which, action would be taken against the erring officials, State Wakf and Hajj Minister Zameer Ahmed Khan said.
Speaking to reporters here on Wednesday, the Minister said that the lottery process was fixed on January 16. In order to avoid last minute confusions, the officials have conducted experiment on January 15 and this has led to some confusions, for which he would tender apology, he said.
Central Haj Committee has allotted 6,701 seats for this year to the state. But more than 10,000 people have applied for the selection. Even the selection process would also be monitored by the central committee. Everybody wanted to conduct Hajj pilgrimage once in their lifetime. So, some people have experienced the confusion due to some technical issues. He would initiate enquiry into such mistake and take action, the Minister said.
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A 99-run loss is unacceptable: Hayden blames batting horror
Ahmedabad (PTI): Gujarat Titans' batting coach Matthew Hayden was scathing about their 99-run defeat to Mumbai Indians, blaming a "horror" batting display and poor death bowling for the heavy loss in the IPL.
From being 44/3 in 5.5 overs, MI hammered 73 runs in the last four overs to post a challenging 199/5 here on Monday. In reply, GT were bundled out for 100.
"I expect our margins to be a lot smaller than 100 (99). That is an unacceptable scorecard for our batting unit," the legendary Australian opener told media in the post-match interaction.
"It was just a horrible day for us today. Truth be told, there was nothing good about this day, really, apart from Rabada's performance with the ball. so we've got some work to do, definitely."
GT boast a strong batting line-up in Sai Sudharsan (759 runs), Shubman Gill (717), and Jos Buttler (538). They have also added New Zealand’s explosive Glenn Phillips in the middle order alongside Shahrukh Khan and Rahul Tewatia.
"When you look down at our batting line-up, we've got wonderful players that have to be in a better mindset and better position to take their opportunities. That is our expectations and has been since the conception of this Gujarat Titans franchise...
"So you can't be sitting here and being happy about, a 100-run (99) margin game in a 20-over game. I mean, back in my day, 100 runs was almost a winning total in 50-over cricket!"
The 54-year-old said GT lost the game in the powerplay.
"Well, middle order was undoubtedly exposed today. When they're coming in with six overs, you know that you're in deep trouble. The thing about the power plays is that you can't win it from there, especially in a run chase, but you can definitely lose it, and we lost it in the power play," he said.
Shahrukh (35 off 25 balls) and Tewatia (49 off 42) have not fared well this season and Hayden feels the duo along with Phillips (67 off 54 balls) have been struggling because the top order has been below its best.
"The relevance behind balls faced when you look at, for example, someone like Glenn Phillips -- his record in T20 cricket is an impressive strike rate and you'll take that all day long in the majority of games," Hayden said.
"However, you need an upfront batting effort where you consistently taking the lion's share of the batting. We shouldn't be allowing, Tiwu (Tewatia) or Shahrukh or these guys lots of balls. That's not their role. That's not what they train for."
Hayden said GT has an aggressive and adaptable unit but their execution fell apart on the day.
"We are a very good thinking batting unit. We're not a conservative batting unit. You don't go out and get 200s as often as we do being conservative. But they're an adaptive batting unit. ...they've got their roles and they play them and today they simply didn't.
"So the worry isn't just today about the middle order. It'd be unfair to say that, they were going to go on and score 13 runs an over because by that stage, I felt like as a batting coach, I was on the mast and the boat was sinking."
It was poorly executed bowling effort
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Hayden also pointed to poor execution in the death overs.
"I feel like one-dimensional is very unfair on a world-class bowling attack, but I will take on board it was a poorly executed bowling effort this evening.
"When you look back at those last four overs, that was just a 'horror story' -- 73 off the last four is unacceptable as world-class players. That bowling line-up has to reflect on that performance... It was purely an executional thing."
He added that GT were below par with the ball on a surface that didn’t fully justify the high total.
"We're very average with the ball, firstly, on a wicket that I really felt was probably a 175-type wicket.
"When you look historically at this black soil pitch on No. 5, it's a 200-wicket for the loss of five batters. That's been its winning first-inning score, and today it wasn't that wicket (199/5)... It was visible that it had cracks in it. It was visible that it was up and down.
"So credit also has to go to Tilak Varma, who put in a wonderful performance. It wasn't a cookie-cutter type performance. It was a dominant performance down the ground. He read the play nicely. He was able to pick up and play with power and precision."
Hayden said the chase was still within reach but poor shot selection proved costly.
"And when you reflect on our own batting, we had one side of the ground that was a little more inaccessible than the other, and we lost, what, three wickets into the bigger side of that boundary.
"And it wasn't an impossible total. 200 still is a total that I would back our three world-class players at the top of the order to etch into that a bit more and then allow our more sort of game players. An opportunity to set out their stalls and bat deep into the innings."
