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Minorities Commission Chairman requests KCR to order inquiry into attempts to weaken panel
Chairman of State Minorities Commission (SMC) that serves Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, Abid Rasool Khan, today alleged that attempts are being made to weaken the panel.
Hyderabad: Chairman of State Minorities Commission (SMC) that serves Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, Abid Rasool Khan, today alleged that attempts are being made to weaken the panel.
Without naming any officials, Khan said the panel, which was functioning from the Raghava Sadan here, was shifted by the authorities last week.
He requested Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao to order a high-level inquiry into the matter.
"State Minorities Commission is a statutory body. I am struggling to build it up since 2013 after my appointment.
In the last three years our office was shifted three times - from Secretariat to Raghava Sadan and now the authorities themselves got shifted the office to an apartment," Khan told reporters here.
The Commission, he said, has been doing good work for the benefit of minorities and addressed thousands of grievances and took up enquiries to enable justice to people.
At this stage, it was the responsibility of both the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana governments to build it up strongly, he said. Alleging that efforts are being made to weaken the commission, Khan said, "We have only three people staff when it should be 20 as sanctioned. It has been an attempt by the authorities to see that the Minorities Commission does not get strength."
"A clear attempt is being made to see that the Commission does not function or if it functions also, it functions in such a way that it is not accessible to people," he alleged.
