Postponement of State Waqf Board chairman election
Bengaluru: The election for the post of the State Waqf Board chairman, which was scheduled to be held today (Feb 17) at 12 PM, has been postponed.
It was reported that preparations were underway to re-elect former Waqf Board chairman K. Anwar Basha for another term. However, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) Vice President Muhammad Ubaidullah Sharif and Syed Ashraf, who had served as the political secretary to former Prime Minister V.P. Singh, recently held a press conference, releasing documents and demanding that Anwar Basha should not be re-elected due to allegations of encroachment on government graveyard land.
Additionally, concerns were raised regarding the government's nomination of members to the Waqf Board without consulting senior leaders. Minority Welfare and Waqf Minister Zameer Ahmed Khan was accused of making unilateral decisions in this regard.
Sharif and Ashraf had warned that if Anwar Basha was reappointed as chairman, they would systematically release documents related to land encroachments and land grabs involving him and other board members.
By postponing the election, the government appears to be attempting to address the dissatisfaction among senior community leaders.
Recently, the government nominated former chairman Khalid Ahmed, Maulana Syed Muhiyuddin Husaini Peer Zade, Maulana Mir Qasim Abbas, and IPS officer Sara Fatima as members of the Waqf Board.
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Screenwriter Salim Khan on ventilator support and stable, say doctors
Mumbai (PTI): Veteran screenwriter Salim Khan suffered a brain haemorrhage which has been tackled, is on ventilator support as a safeguard and stable, doctors treating him said on Wednesday, a day after he was admitted to the Lilavati Hospital here.
The 90-year-old, one half of the celebrated Salim-Javed duo which scripted films such as "Sholay", "Deewar" and "Don" with Javed Akhtar, is in the ICU and recovery might take some time given his age.
"His blood pressure was high for which we treated him and we had to put him on a ventilator because we wanted to do certain investigations. Now the ventilator was put as a safeguard so that his situation doesn't get worse. So it is not that he is critical," Dr Jalil Parkar told reporters.
"We did the investigations that were required and today we have done a small procedure on him, I will not go into the details. The procedure done is called DSA (digital subtraction angiography). The procedure has been accomplished, he is fine and stable and shifted back to ICU. By tomorrow, we hope to get him off the ventilator. All in all, he is doing quite well," he added.
Asked whether he suffered a brain haemorrhage, the doctor said, "Unko thoda haemorrhage hua tha, which we’ve tackled. No surgery is required.
As concern over Khan's health mounted, his children, including superstar Salman Khan and Arbaaz Khan, daughter Alvira, and sons-in-law Atul Agnihotri and Aayush Sharma, have been seen outside the hospital along with other well-wishers. His long-time partner Akhtar was also seen coming out of the hospital.
Khan, a household name in the 70s and 80s, turned 90 on November 24 last year. It was the day Dharmendra, the star of many of his films, including "Sholay", "Seeta aur Geeta" and "Yaadon Ki Baraat", passed away.
Hailing from an affluent family in Indore, Khan arrived in Mumbai in his 20s with dreams of stardom. He was good looking and confident he would make a mark in the industry as an actor. But that did not happen. And then, after struggling for close to a decade and getting confined to small roles in films, he changed lanes.
He worked as an assistant to Abrar Alvi and soon met Akhtar to form one of Hindi cinema's most formidable writing partnerships. They worked together on two dozen movies with most of them achieving blockbuster status.
Other than "Sholay", "Deewar" and "Don", Khan and Akhtar also penned "Trishul", "Zanjeer", "Seeta Aur Geeta", "Haathi Mere Saathi", "Yaadon Ki Baarat" and "Mr India".
