Owaisi-KCR duo manipulating statistics of poor Muslims: Shabbir Ali
The Hindu
Efforts to deny them the benefit of ‘Minorities Bandhu’ which the CM is under pressure to announce, says Congress leader
The Congress party has alleged that AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao have hatched a plan to cheat the Muslim community of Telangana by trying to sell the figures that only 9,000 Muslim families were eligible for the ‘Minorities Bandhu’, which the Congress party has been demanding.
TPCC Political Affairs Committee convener Mohammed Ali Shabbir said in a statement that more than five lakh poor Muslim families were eligible to get ₹ 10 lakh each on a par with Dalit families who are being covered under the ‘Dalit Bandhu’ scheme. However, AIMIM has 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.
Mr. Shabbir Ali said that the Centre for Development Policy and Practice (CDPP), an NGO, with its misleading analysis of the G. Sudhir Commission report on Muslims claimed that only 1% of the Muslims were poor and this was to deny the Muslims the benefit of ‘Minorities Bandhu’ which the Chief Minister is under pressure to announce.
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