Hyderabad, Sept.30 (Hydnow): The Congress party on Thursday rejected the new report on ‘Muslim backwardness’ presented by AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi demanding Rs. 10 lakh assistance for poor 9,000 Muslim families and claimed that more than 5 lakh poor Muslim families were eligible to get the assistance.
Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) Political Affairs Committee Convener and former minister Mohammed Ali Shabbir, in a media statement on Thursday, claimed that more than 5 lakh poor Muslim families were eligible to get Rs. 10 Lakh each on par with Dalit families who are being covered under the ‘Dalit Bandhu’ scheme.
“Ever since the launch of Dalit Bandhu, Congress party has been demanding ‘Minorities Bandhu’ and payment of Rs. 10 Lakh each for all poor Muslim families. Instead of accepting our demand, Asaduddin Owaisi and CM KCR have hatched a plan to cheat the Muslim community of Telangana.
They’ve used the data compiled by a Commission of Inquiry in 2015-16 and manipulated it to show that out of 8.80 lakh Muslim households, only 9,000 Muslim families are eligible to get the ‘Minorities Bandhu‘ benefit,” he alleged.
Shabbir Ali said that the Centre for Development Policy and Practice (CDPP), an NGO, came up with a report “Situating Development of Muslims in Telangana – Policy Implications’. The entire report is based on the data collected by the Commission of Inquiry headed by retired IAS officer G. Sudhir in 2015-16.
Although the report was authored by three other persons, eminent personalities like Amitabh Kundu, G. Sudhir, Amir Ullah Khan and others were invited to the meeting to mislead the people.
“This report was prepared only to deny the Muslims, the benefit of ‘Minorities Bandhu‘ which CM KCR is yet to announce,” he said. (Hydnow)
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