Bengaluru: "The way in which the Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) is providing legal aid to the innocents and oppressed is a great task. I am always with APCR for such relief works and ready to provide all possible assistance from the Minority Commission", informed Minority Commission chairman G A Bawa.

He was addressing here after inaugurating the District Office Bearers Conference on 'Legal issues and its solutions' held in Bengaluru on Saturday, 28th September, under the aegis of APCR Karnataka Chapter. G A Bawa said that recently APCR delegation led by its secretary made a visit to the state jail.  He said there were several people who have been released on bail but did not have enough money to pay them out. For such a situation, free legal aid is provided by the government, but we also need to work on it to bring people out. He assured that the Minority Commission will always be ready to jointly work with the APCR.

Further speaking, newly elected APCR President and Bengaluru High Court Advocate P. Usman lauded APCR's performance so far and said that he joined into APCR after noticing the services and being impressed by people's reactions towards APCR. Addressing about the current situation in the country, he said that the constitution we have is like a weapon for us. "There are great opportunities for APCR workers to work for civil rights in accordance with the constitution. We should not go beyond constitutional provinces. Hence if we follow this, there should not be any fear, hesitation or restrictions in our activities and also there will be no barriers for us to do anything that the Constitution allows us to do," he said.

The conference was attended by APCR officials from various districts of the state, who were assigned different responsibilities and given a month's time to perform several tasks. Meanwhile, the one-year 'Calendar of Events' list was also read. On this occasion, the district officials submitted annual reports of the activities in their respective areas and expressed their determination to perform the tasks better in the future.

Assistant Ameer-e-Halqa of Jamat e Islami Hind Karnataka, Maulana Muhammad Yousuf Kunhi lauded Karnataka APCR. He said that there are many organization in society that are doing many social works, but APCR has been established for the work which hardly any organization does. He opined the members to work according to the Association's bylaws so that people will come finding you for help. On this occasion, Maulana presented several suggestions and asked to focus on strengthening the Association.

The program began with the recitation of verses from Holy Quran by Abdul Muqtadeer, while APCR Karnataka chapter General Secretary Muhammad Niyaz Ahmed addressed welcome note and briefly introduced about the organization. APCR state co-ordinator Shaikh Muhammad Shafi and Founder Member of APCR Mehamood Qazi too expressed their views on current services of APCR. State Executive Member Tajuddin Sharif compered the event and also gave a vote of thanks.

The conference began in the morning at around 10:30 AM and concluded in the evening at 5:00 PM.

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Chennai (PTI): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Friday demanded that the Centre immediately rollback the hike in commercial LPG cylinder prices. The price of commercial LPG was hiked by the steepest ever Rs 993 per 19-kg cylinder on May 1, marking the third straight monthly increase due to rising global energy prices linked to the West Asia conflict.

In his social media X platform, the DMK chief alleged that as predicted before the polls, the BJP-led union government has raised LPG prices immediately after the elections concluded.

"When global crude oil prices fell, the benefits were not passed on to the people, " he said, accusing the Centre of "using the West Asia war crisis as an excuse to raise the prices without regard for public welfare".

Calling for protection of the livelihood of the people, Stalin demanded an immediate rollback of the LPG price hike.

He asked the Centre to consider the people's suffering and find solutions.