Muslim representation remains unchanged in Telangana Assembly


Hyderabad, Dec 12 (IANS): The representation of Muslims in the 119-member Telangana Assembly remains unchanged at eight.

Seven members of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) were re-elected from Muslim-majority constituencies in Hyderabad while a member of the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) was also re-elected. They were all members of the dissolved Assembly.

AIMIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi was re-elected from Chandrayangutta constituency. The other newly elected legislators from his party are Mumtaz Ahmed Khan (Charminar), Ahmed Pasha Quadri (Yakutpura), Jaffar Hussain (Nampalli), Ahmed Bin Abdullah Balala (Malakpet), Moazzam Khan (Bahadurpura) and Kausar Mohiuddin (Karwan).

TRS' Mohammed Shakeel Aamir was re-elected from Bodhan in Nizamabad district. He was one of the two Muslim candidates of the ruling party and the only one outside the AIMIM strongholds.

The Congress fielded seven candidates including two outside Hyderabad but none could win. The Bharatiya Janata Party's both Muslim candidates and Telugu Desam Party's lone Muslim candidates all lost -- in seats held by AIMIM.

  

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  • Shankar, Mangaluru

    Wed, Dec 12 2018

    India will be a true secular country when we stop analyzing the number of Muslims/Hindus/Christians in the elected group of representatives. What benefit it adds from these kind of analysis? have all the Muslim MLAs received votes from only Muslims? Or Hindu representatives received votes only from Hindus???

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  • Kamal, calicut

    Wed, Dec 12 2018

    BJP tried hard to defame Owaisi brothers and thereby making MIM not possible to get a single seat in Telangana. but their divide and rule party did not work. Voters rejected them and selected 7 out of 8 members from MIM. I hope Telengana and all other states to be bjp mukt.

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  • Pradeep Shetty, mangalore

    Wed, Dec 12 2018

    SHRI. ASAUDDIN OWAISI IS PROVED THAT HE IS ONE OF THE GREAT LEADER OF COUNTRY

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