Minority Commission to get its chief shortly: Zameer Ahmed Khan
Bengaluru, Jan 8: Minority Welfare, Hajj and Wakf Minister B.Z Zameer Ahmed Khan said that the Minority Commission would shortly get its new chief which was vacant after the resignation of Naseer Ahmed.
After releasing a booklet on various programmes for the minorities and 15 points programmes translated into Urdu at the Minority Commission office here on Tuesday, the Minister said that since the coalition partner JDS would take a decision on appointing chairman to the State Minority Development Corporation. As of now, the corporation has been functioning under him, he said.
Delegation to New Delhi
In order to collect proper information on programmes introduced by the central government for minorities, a delegation of minority leaders would be taken to New Delhi shortly and discuss with the ministers and officials of the ministry, he said.
MLC and State Minority Commission former president Naseer Ahmed said that he had tried to constitute Cabinet sub-committee to discuss on minority problems for the first time in the country.
Dr G Parameshwar and Ramesh Kumar had worked well as the Cabinet Sub-Committee and now, the Committee was functioning under Home Minister MB Patil and the Committee should ensure justice to the minorities, he said.
As per the recommendation of the Justice Ranganath Mishra Commission, the minorities should get 15 per cent reservation in government appointments. They have made some recommendations to the government regarding the issue. Total 24 recommendations were presented before the Cabinet Sub-Committee, he said while appealing the Minister to take a decision.
The budget allocation for the SC/ST should be spent completely. Otherwise, officers concerned would be held responsible, for which a law was passed in the previous government. Same law should be introduced for the minorities also, he appealed.
“The condolence meeting of senior Congress leader and former union minister CK Jaffer Sharief would be held at Quddus Saheb Eidgah Maidan in the city on January 18 at 5 pm. Opposition Leader in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, Rajya Sabha Member Ahmed Patel, Jammu- Kashmir former CMs Mehabuba Mufti, Farooq Abdullah, CPM leader Sitaram Yechury, Maulana Arshad Madani, Maulana Mahmood Madani, All India Muslim Personal Law Board general secretary Maulana Wali Rahmani, Archbishop, former prime minister H.D Deve Gowda and others would be present”.
- Naseer Ahmed, MLC
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Followed poll processes transparently, will review all legitimate concerns: EC to Cong
New Delhi (PTI): The Election Commission on Saturday asserted that all poll procedures it followed in Maharashtra were transparent and assured that it would review all legitimate concerns flagged by the Congress, which alleged serious inconsistencies.
In its interim response to the party, the poll authority invited a Congress delegation on December 3 to discuss concerns expressed by it.
The Congress on Friday raised with the Election Commission "serious and grave inconsistencies" which it said were being revealed in the data relating to the polling and counting processes for the recently-concluded Maharashtra Assembly polls and sought an in-person hearing to present relevant evidence.
In the response, the EC reiterated that the process was transparent with the involvement of candidates or their agents at every stage.
The commission also assured of a review of the Congress' legitimate concerns and a written response after hearing the party's delegation in person.
It asserted that a transparent electoral roll updation process was undertaken with the involvement of all political parties.
Responding to the issue regarding the voter turnout data, the EC asserted that there was no discrepancy in it and the data was available with all candidates polling station-wise and is verifiable.
The gap in the 5 pm polling data and the final voter turnout was due to procedural priorities, as presiding officers perform multiple statutory duties near the close of polling before updating the voter turnout data.
As an additional disclosure measure, an EC press note at around 11:45 pm was introduced during the 2024 Lok Sabha election and followed subsequently during all assembly polls thereafter, the poll body told the Congress.
