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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Nitish did not project Samrat as new CM: Bihar minister
Patna (PTI): Bihar minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary rejected suggestions that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who is expected to step down soon to enter the Rajya Sabha, has projected his deputy Samrat Choudhary as his successor.
Kumar had, during his tour of Jamui district on Wednesday as part of the Samriddhi Yatra, pointed towards Samrat Choudhary, a senior BJP leader, and remarked, "He shall be looking after Bihar and the state will make tremendous progress."
This led to speculation in a section of the media that Kumar, who heads the JD(U), was hinting that he wanted his deputy as the new CM.
However, when questions were posed to Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, who is a senior JD(U) leader, he shot back, "I was very much present there. So, please do not come up with your interpretations before me."
The JD(U) leader, though, admitted that as a deputy CM, Samrat Choudhary has been sincerely working with the chief minister, who has been in the habit of encouraging all his cabinet colleagues by saying he or she will be looking after things.
"There is nothing new in that. You people (journalists) are imagining that it is some new signal," he said.
Chaudhary was interacting with journalists at the chief minister's residence late in the evening after the last Iftaar party the JD(U) president hosted in his present capacity.
He said, "Our chief minister has always cared about the minorities, and this is the reason he invites Muslims to his house every year during the holy month of Ramadan."
Asked whether the longest serving CM appeared emotional on the occasion, Chaudhary remarked cryptically, "Politics has its own dynamics. It is not guided by sentiments."
After Kumar gives up the seat of power, the new government is likely to be headed by the BJP, the single largest party in the assembly.
Sources close to the JD(U) president claim that his son Nishant, who was inducted into the party last week, was likely to be made the deputy CM in the new government.
