Hyderabad: In order to effectively guide selected pilgrims of Haj 2023, the Haj Committee of India organized a one-day online training program for Haj aspirants across the country. Apart from Telangana, Haj pilgrims from other states of the country participated in the program.
Telangana Haj Committee Chairman Mohammed Salim, Executive Officer B Shafiullah, and other officials participated in the online program at the Haj Committee office while representatives of district Haj societies participated online.
In the training program, the pilgrims are informed about the new changes regarding Haj by the Saudi government. It was emphasized that the pilgrims should be made aware of the precautionary measures and duties and rituals from arrival to departure.
Chief Executive Officer Haj Committee of India Mohammad Yaqoob Sheikh, Mufti Mohammad Manzoor Ziai, Charanpreet Singh Bakshi Joint Secretary Ministry of Minority Affairs, Shahid Alam Consul General Jeddah, Muhammad Hashim Consul Haj Jeddah and office bearers of Customs, Immigration and other departments participated in the meeting.
Chairman Haj Committee Mohammad Salim said that training camps will be organized in Telangana as usual. At the same time, selected Haj pilgrims from Telangana are facing problems as a result of the non-receipt of SMS related to important updates. Pilgrims have to rely on newspapers for important information.
The Haj Committee of India is sending necessary SMS timely, while no local system has been prepared by the State Haj Committee.
The Telangana Haj Committee should introduce an SMS system to keep the pilgrims informed about the training camps, payment of installments, commencement of Haj camp, and other information.
1.75 lakh pilgrims from India will perform Haj this time and extraordinary arrangements are being made by the Government of Saudi Arabia. Efforts are being made to keep the accommodation of Indian pilgrims close to Harmeen.
Hyderabad: Telangana Health Minister Harish Rao inaugurated the oncology care block at Mehdi Nawaz Jung Cancer Hospital, Hyderabad on Sunday as the state is gearing up to provide modern super-specialty facilities for cancer treatment.
The government has provided these modern facilities in collaboration with Aurobindo Pharma Foundation. The new eight-storey 300-bed carrier block has been developed by Aurobindo Pharma Foundation with Rs 80 crore. Harish Rao along with Union Tourism and Culture Minister G Kishan Reddy inaugurated the new block.
He said that with the inauguration of the new block, the number of beds in cancer hospitals will increase to 750. He said the Telangana government has spent Rs 60 crore on the development of MNJ Cancer Hospital. He also expressed gratitude to the Aurobindo Pharma Foundation for the development of the new block.
He said that there will be separate departments for women and children in the new block. Teachers and libraries have been arranged for children who want to continue their education during treatment.
Bone Nero transplant and other modern treatment facilities will be available, which can cost up to Rs 10 lakh, but this treatment will be provided to the poor under the Argyashree scheme, and medicines will also be provided free of cost throughout life.
He said that the previous governments did not pay attention to the provision of modern super-specialty facilities. KCR has ensured modern treatment along with the provision of basic facilities in government hospitals. In the coming years, patients will get 10,000 bedded super-specialty facilities in government hospitals. In addition to MNJ cancer hospitals, these facilities will be provided in NIMS, Osmania, and Gandhi hospitals as well.
Earlier, Harish Rao had launched a mobile cancer screening bus, a CT scan, and a Dental X-ray OPG machine at the state-run Mehdi Nawaz Jung (MNJ) Cancer Hospital in Lakdikapul on the occasion of World Cancer Day. The cancer screening bus has equipment that can screen cervical, breast, and oral cancers, the minister informed.
The results could also serve as a renewed warning to Republican presidential hopefuls like Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis: General election voters are less interested in crusades against critical race theory and transgender students than they are in funding schools and ensuring they are safe.
“Where culture war issues were being waged by some school board candidates, those issues fell flat with voters,” said Kim Anderson, executive director of the National Education Association labor union. “The takeaway for us is that parents and community members and voters want candidates who are focused on strengthening our public schools, not abandoning them.”
The results from the Milwaukee and Chicago areas are hardly the last word on the matter. Thousands more local school elections are set for later this year in some two dozen states. They are often low turnout, low profile, and officially nonpartisan affairs, and conservatives say they are competing aggressively.
“We lost more than we won” earlier this month, said Ryan Girdusky, founder of the conservative 1776 Project political action committee, which has ties to GOP megadonor and billionaire Richard Uihlein and endorsed an array of school board candidates this spring and during the 2022 midterms.
“But we didn’t lose everything. We didn’t get obliterated,” Girdusky told POLITICO of his group’s performance. “We still pulled our weight through, and we just have to keep on pushing forward on this.”
Labor groups and Democratic operatives are nevertheless flexing over the defeat of candidates they opposed during races that took place near Chicago, which received hundreds of thousands of dollars in support from state Democrats and the attention of Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker, and in Wisconsin. Conservative board hopefuls also saw mixed results in Missouri and Oklahoma.
Democrats hope the spring school election season validates their playbook: Coordinate with local party officials, educator unions and allied community members to identify and support candidates who wield an affirming pro-public education message — and depict competitors as hard-right extremists.
Yet despite victories in one reliably blue state and one notorious battleground, liberals are still confronting Republican momentum this year that could resemble November’s stalemated midterm results for schools and keep the state of education divided along partisan lines.
Conservative states are already carrying out sharp restrictions on classroom lessons, LGBTQ students, and library books. And they are beginning to refine their message to appeal to moderates.
Trump, DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and other Republican presidential hopefuls are leaning on school-based wedge issues to court primary voters in a crowded White House campaign.
That rhetoric, combined with Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s ability to harness voter frustration with education as part of his upset victory in 2021, has inspired a wave of conservative challengers to run for school board seats.
Once the domain for everyday academic concerns, mild-mannered bureaucracy, and the occasional controversy, school boards became a lightning rod for the right during pandemic lockdowns plus a national reckoning with gender identity and race.
Critical race theory was an obscure academic legal framework used to examine racism in American institutions. But it has been reframed by conservative activists to encompass broad complaints about issues related to diversity.
Conservatives have also seized on transgender students to rejuvenate a social agenda that includes a push to restrict transgender athletes in sports, gender-affirming medical care and access to LGBTQ-affirming library materials.
“What I was most surprised by was just the sheer prevalence of these Republican candidates,” said Ben Hardin, executive director of the Democratic Party of Illinois, after his party made an unprecedented decision to endorse dozens of local school and library board candidates and funnel nearly $300,000 into those elections.
“Obviously this is not a new phenomenon,” Hardin said in an interview. “But to see it so widespread here in Illinois, across the state in regions that are across the partisanship spectrum, was what was most interesting to me.”
In Oswego, Ill., a small community in Chicago’s far southwestern suburbs, the 1776 Project supported four candidates running as part of a “We The Parents” slate on a platform aligned with the conservative parental rights movement. Each of those candidates lost, including to one candidate endorsed by a local Illinois Federation of Teachers affiliate.
The race, like many others across the region, featured core concerns that are often splitting school communities today.
The Chicago Tribune reported Oswego’s We The Parents slate received support from the local Stamp Act political action committee, which proclaims it will “fight to preserve our cultural and religious heritage” and “resist attempts by the Left to transform and reshape American society.”
The conservative Awake Illinois group, which has opposed critical race theory and gender-affirming medical care for children, weighed in too.
A group of conservative candidates in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Barrington who were backed by the 1776 PAC, Moms For America Action and Awake Illinois also lost their school board bids.
“Fortunately, the voters saw through the hidden extremists who were running for school board — across the [Chicago] suburbs especially,” Pritzker told reporters after last week’s election. “I’m glad that those folks were shown up and, frankly, tossed out.”
Overall, the 1776 Project PAC endorsed 14 candidates but won six races in Illinois. Other conservatives also notched wins in Illinois, including two candidates who claimed seats in a suburban high school district in Lockport Township, Ill. over two union-endorsed aspirants.
The Democratic Party of Illinois said 84 of 117 candidates the party recommended won their April 4 races. The Illinois Education Association, the state affiliate of the National Education Association, said it won nearly 90 percent of the races where it endorsed candidates.
“Part of the reason we did so well is because of how we are organized,” said Kathi Griffin, president of the Illinois Education Association. “The state organization does not tell the local affiliates who to support. It is the local affiliates that do the interviewing of candidates, have relationships with the community and with the parents. They are the ones that make the decision, then they reach out to us” to ask for support.
Teacher unions are also celebrating a school board victory in a bellwether community in suburban Milwaukee.
Brian Schimming, chair of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, described the Wauwatosa School Board election last month as “an important race for the whole state.”
Schimming promoted candidates known as the “Three Tosa Dads” who emphasized a platform centered on school safety and academic performance after the Republican National Committee last year encouraged candidates to broaden their message beyond culture wars and court independent voters with a more nuanced message focused on parental involvement and student educational development.
Wauwatosa’s GOP-backed aspirants still lost by wide margins to teacher union-supported candidates. The 1776 Project won slightly less than half of the nearly 50 Wisconsin races it endorsed candidates in.
Other efforts led by Wisconsin Republicans were more successful.
In Waukesha County, where voters heavily favored Trump in the 2020 election, the local party successfully endorsed dozens of area school board candidates as part of a “WisRed Initiative” to dominate local government races.
But Moms For Liberty, a newly prominent conservative group that helps train and endorse school board candidates, said just eight of its candidates won races in Wisconsin last week. The group had endorsed candidates in another 20 elections, its founders said.
“We are hopeful that as more people learn about Moms For Liberty and contribute to our PAC, we will be able to win more races,” organization co-founders Tiffany Justice and Tina Descovich said in a statement. “The majority of those [endorsements] were first time candidates who did not win, and that just gives us a great bench of folks to have trained and ready to run again to fight for parental rights in future elections.”
The results offer lessons to both parties as they eye even more board elections this year.
Education was central to Youngkin’s win, though his political advisers have stressed the campaign’s success was based on building custom messaging models targeted at different groups of voters instead of relying on a single message.
Conservative school campaigns should heed similar advice, Girdusky argued.
“Don’t assume that a blanket message on critical race theory or transgender issues is going to claim every district — it’s very personalized,” he said. “If it’s happening in that district, speak to it in volumes. But don’t tell parents something is happening if it’s not happening, because then it doesn’t look like you’re running a serious operation.”
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What they and others have discovered is that the country is increasingly open about it. And that the politics are changing around it.
Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) penned a personal essay about Fetterman and how the news of his depression dredged up old feelings about her own fight with the disease in her teens, and again as a young mom. Republican Sen. Katie Britt’s team sent cookies and brownies to Fetterman’s office almost once a week, the senior Fetterman aide told POLITICO. And before President Joe Biden kicked off his budget speech in Philadelphia last month, he spoke directly to the senator: “John, if you can hear this at all, we’re with you, pal. We’re with you,” he said, drawing cheers from the crowd.
“It was like, damn, this is cool. You never know how it’s going to go, you know? There’s no playbook for what John did,” said the Fetterman aide. “But if you can learn anything from John Fetterman, it’s that it’s OK. Things can get better. It is OK to get help. That’s what he wants people to take away from this.”
Fetterman’s return to the Hill on Monday will provide the most visible example of the nation’s capital — a city where public figures often fight to keep personal battles shrouded in secrecy — slowly embracing an issue that affects 1 in 5 Americans in a given year. From Congress to the White House, policymakers have begun leaning into mental health as a key policy priority.
“In the ’50s and ’60s, nobody said the word cancer. We talk about cancer now. We need to get to that point where we talk about depression. We talk about bipolar disorder. We talk about PTSD. We talk about schizophrenia, and acknowledge that these are illnesses for which there is treatment, and people can have satisfying, fulfilling lives,” said Lynn Bufka, associate chief of practice transformation at the American Psychological Association and a licensed psychologist in Maryland.
“So anytime we have more visible figures talking about the reality, it helps people to see ‘Oh, that person is a lot like me.’”
Not only are politicians opening up about their private struggles and decisions to seek treatment but they are doing it while staying in office, said Jason Kander, the former secretary of state of Missouri. Kander, a rising star in the Democratic party, ran for Kansas City mayor in the 2019 election. He dropped out after revealing he had post-traumatic stress disorder and depression after his service in Afghanistan.
“I announced that I was leaving public life for a while to go get help … now I’m a public person again, and I’m trying to be that role model as best I can. But there’s a difference between that next level of what John Fetterman is doing,” Kander said in an interview. “I’m aware of the social media comments that are like, ‘Oh, whatever happened to that guy after he made that announcement?’ And that’s fine, but it’s really great that in the case of John Fetterman, or Ruben Gallego, people see, ‘Oh, they made this announcement, and their pursuit continued.’”
The shift in Washington can be attributed to a number of factors, Bufka said. After decades of advocacy work from the APA and other organizations focused on mental health education, the media now talks about mental health more. The Covid pandemic also greatly exacerbated the crisis, forcing politicians to face the issue head on as one impacting their constituents — and their own lives.
Biden followed a similar path. He had spoken in the past about mental health and worked on the issue as vice president, announcing Obama White House efforts to increase access to mental health services. But during the 2020 campaign, the issue became personalized as he faced questions about his son Hunter’s struggles with mental health and addiction.
“The idea that we treat mental health and physical health as though somehow they’re distinct — it’s health,” Biden said during the interview with CNN. “… I’m confident, confident, he’s going to make it.”
The focus continued into his presidency. During his first State of the Union address, Biden talked about how the pandemic impacted kids, increasing social isolation, anxiety and learning loss. As part of his “unity agenda,” he outlined the White House’s strategy for combating the mental health crisis: creating healthy learning environments, strengthening system capacity and connecting more Americans to care.
The American Rescue Plan included funding to expand Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics, invest in the 988 suicide prevention hotline and launch projects to tackle the impacts of social media and kids. Biden’s latest budget requests $139 million for research and another $16.6 billion to increase mental health care programs in the Veterans Affairs Medical Care program.
“Having the White House be public about this is is meaningful. And I suspect — I would never deign to speak for the president — but I suspect that the contemporary veterans in his family have helped him understand this,” said Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), who has spoken about his PTSD after serving in the military.
There has been no shortage of administration officials talking about the growing crisis, including Domestic Policy Council Adviser Susan Rice, and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, who has said in interviews that he accepted Biden’s offer to serve a second term because of the dire state of the country’s emotional health.
During White House events, Murthy has talked about about his own struggles with mental health as a young boy and about his uncle, who died by suicide after a silent battle with depression.
Still, the steps forward don’t negate the reality that a stigma still exists, Smith said. She suspected that if one were to do the math, there were likely dozens of members of Congress choosing to not talk about their mental health, fearful of what it could mean for their political careers.
Even as Fetterman’s openness has been met with a positive response, stories like the one of Tom Eagleton, the Democratic running mate for presidential nominee George McGovern who withdrew from the ticket after acknowledging was treated for clinical depression and received electroshock therapy, still haunt politicians.
Then there was former Rep. Patrick Kennedy who left politics to focus on his addiction and bipolar disorder. He entered a rehabilitation center after crashing his car into a barricade on Capitol Hill in 2006. In a 2016 interview, Kennedy noted that there were moments he knew he needed help, well before that breaking point. But back then, politicians didn’t talk about these things.
“It is getting better, but individuals still take risks when they speak out … people are still willing to jump to the conclusion that because you have a mental health issue, that means are you really capable of serving? Can you really do what you need to do?” Smith said.
“But to me, it’s worth it. The positive side of it is the people out there, especially the young people, who see folks like me — who by all appearances have my act together — being open about it. That creates a door for them to walk through.”
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The two death penalty measures are just a part of a series criminal justice bills that DeSantis called for ahead of this year’s session. He sharply criticized the Parkland jury decision that resulted in Cruz getting a life sentence, but in a running series of appearances to promote his book ahead of an expected presidential run, he also lashed out at blue states and “soft-on-crime” prosecutors operating in other parts of the country.
“We are holding people accountable,” DeSantis told Republicans gathered Thursday morning at a Lincoln Day breakfast held in Akron, Ohio. “We reject soft-on-crime polices like eliminating cash bail or jailbreak legislation that lets dangerous criminals out of jail before they have finished their sentence. We see the plague across the country of left-wing district attorneys getting elected.”
Republicans with an eye toward running for president see fighting crime as a good issue for them, after the message resonated with voters in the midterms. Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday, for example, called for mass shooters to be executed within months.
DeSantis’ record on criminal justice is something that allies of former President Donald Trump have already hit the governor on. They criticized him for signing a bill in 2019 that raised the amount that must be stolen for someone to be charged with a felony. The Make America Great Again PAC last month claimed that “while President Trump is the only presidential candidate calling for the death penalty for drug dealers, DeSantis is giving a pass to thieves.”
DeSantis’ criticism of prosecutors and crime policies isn’t new. Last August, he suspended Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren from office after Warren signed a pledge where he stated he would not enforce the state’s abortion laws, among other things. Warren, who was elected to office, is challenging his suspension in both federal and state court, contending that he was removed for political reasons.
After carrying out two executions in his first term, DeSantis has now signed three death warrants so far this year. The execution of Louis Gaskin, who had been dubbed the “ninja killer” and was convicted of killing a couple in 1989, went ahead this past week. Darryl Barwick, who was convicted of murdering a Panhandle woman in 1986, is scheduled to be executed May 3.
The death penalty legislation, however, would likely place Florida into a high-stakes legal debate over criminal punishment in the nation and could eventually wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Currently, Alabama is the only state that actively imposes the death penalty and doesn’t require a unanimous jury recommendation. But Alabama requires at least 10 out of 12 jurors to agree to the death penalty, while the proposal Florida lawmakers passed on Thursday would allow the death penalty to be imposed by a vote of 8-to-4 or greater.
Supporters of the measure have repeatedly cited the example of Cruz — who gunned down 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 — as a reason to make the change. Three jurors in his case voted against recommending the death penalty nearly five years after the tragedy.
“If a monster like that who commits heinous crimes does not deserve and get the death penalty than what do we have a death penalty for?” said Sen. Blaise Ingoglia, the GOP sponsor of the measure.
Ingoglia’s bill is on its way to the governor’s desk after the Florida House voted 80-30 on Thursday in favor of the legislation. The Senate approved the bill last month by a 29-10 vote.
The Florida House this week also approved another death penalty measure that would allow eight of 12 jurors to recommend the death penalty for someone who rapes a child under the age of 12. The legislation includes a clause that says state and federal court decisions that barred the death penalty in these types cases was “wrongly decided and an egregious infringement of the states’ power to punish the most heinous of crimes.”
“If you commit a serious crime, you’re going to face the consequences of your actions,” House Speaker Paul Renner said. “While diversion and rehabilitation are important to providing individuals who come in contact with the justice system an opportunity to correct their behavior, people must be held accountable.”
Both death penalty measures have drawn support from many Democrats, including Senate Democratic Leader Lauren Book. Book’s district includes Parkland, and she was a member of the school safety commission created in the aftermath of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas.
Book called the Cruz decision a “gross injustice.” She acknowledged that the legislation could help DeSantis during a presidential run, but added that his national ambitions have been the overarching theme of this year’s legislative session.
“Everything coming out is to help him to do something he wants to do and further his agenda,” Book said.
Some Democrats, however, questioned pushing bills that appear at odds with current state and federal court rulings.
“It’s a dangerous, slippery slope,” argued state Rep. Mike Gottlieb, a South Florida Democrat and criminal defense attorney, about child rape bill.
Republicans contend that changing from a unanimous jury to a supermajority should pass constitutional scrutiny, but Renner and other GOP legislators concede that the law regarding rapists could likely wind up before the nation’s high court.
But they pointed out that the previous Supreme Court decision striking down the death penalty for child rapists was handed down by a 5-4 majority, including from liberal justices who are no longer on the panel. The 2008 decision at the time was criticized by both Barack Obama and John McCain as they campaigned for president.
“This is not murder — it’s worse,” said state Rep. Danny Alvarez, an attorney and Republican, during debate on the bill. “When you rape a child, you kill that child’s spirit. That rape lasts with every moment that child closes their eyes. And you tell me ‘oh it doesn’t meet the standard.’…If you will not rise with a child you will fall with the rapist … there should be no debate.”
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Mumbai: Ahead of Eid, actor-comedian Jaaved Jaffrey’s son Meezaan Jafri reached the holy city of Mecca to perform Umrah.
Taking to Instagram stories, the ‘Hungama 2’ actor posted a couple of pictures and videos from his visit to the holy city.
In one frame, Meezaan is clad in a white shawl, a typical attire to perform Umrah. He captioned the post as ‘Umrah’. In another frame, he wrote, “4 hr drive later, No sleep, No sehri, But we got to finish what we came to do…” as he reached the Masjid Al Nabawi.
Earlier Television actor Hina Khan and Bigg Boss contestants Aly Gony and Asim Riaz also participated in Umrah, this year.
On the work front, Meezaan made his debut with Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Malaal’, which tanked at the box office.
The actor was last seen in the comedy-drama ‘Hungama 2’, which was released on the OTT platform Disney plus Hotstar.
Meezaan will next be seen in ‘Yaariyan 2’ alongside Divya Khosla Kumar, and Pearl V Puri. Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru of ‘Sanam Teri Kasam’ fame have come on board to direct the second instalment. ‘Yaariyan’, which was directed by Divya, starred Himansh Kohli, Rakul Preet Singh and Nicole Faria.
‘Yaariyan 2’ also stars Yash Das Gupta, Anaswara Rajan, Warina Hussain, and Priya Varrier in pivotal roles.
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister and BRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao is gearing up for a hat-trick in Telangana and is planning to win the BJP’s all three assembly constituencies.
According to sources, KCR has decided to set a target of winning 100 seats for the assembly elections and preparing the election strategy. In view of the tense situation at the national and state level from the BJP, KCR has started planning to capture all three existing seats of the BJP in the Telangana Assembly so that the state can become free from the BJP’s influence.
Sources said KCR has focussed on Goshamahal, Huzurabad, and Dubbak assembly constituencies represented by Raja Singh, Eatala Rajender, and Raghunandan Rao. In the by-elections, the BJP wrested Dubbak and Huzurabad seats from the BRS, while Raja Singh won in Goshamahal. KCR wants the pink flag to be hoisted on the three assembly segments somehow. Separate teams are being formed for the three assembly constituencies. KCR says the main objective is to deprive the BJP of representation in the state assembly.
Goshamahal MLA Raja Singh who is known for his hate speeches was suspended from BJP for blasphemy and has not been reinstated till date.
Police had sent Raja Singh to jail under the PD Act but the court granted him conditional bail. To focus on Goshamahal, KCR has appointed Nand Kishore Vyas as in-charge who is likely to contest the upcoming assembly elections on a BRS ticket. In 2018, Prem Singh Rathore was the BRS candidate who got 44,000 votes.
In Huzurabad, MLC P Kaushik Reddy has been instructed to be ready for the contest to defeat Eatala Rajender. After being expelled from the BRS, E. Rajendra joined the BJP and won the by-election. It is said that Kaushik Reddy will be fielded against him.
Medak MP K Prabhakar Reddy is likely to contest against Raghunandan Rao in Dubbak. The chief minister has directed Prabhakar Reddy to focus on Dubbak. It remains to be seen to what extent KCR, who dreams of a hat-trick of power in Telangana, will be able to capture all three BJP seats.
Hyderabad: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has started preparations for the 2023 Assembly elections in Telangana. A team of three senior officials led by Deputy Election Commissioner Nitish Kumar Vyas reached Hyderabad to review the arrangements. Commission officials met Chief Electoral Officer Vishwaraj and others.
In the meeting, Nitish Kumar Vyas reviewed the inclusion and exclusion of voters’ names besides updating the voters’ list. He asked the office bearers to keep an eye on the voter list and ensure preparation of defect-free list.
He directed the Chief Electoral Officer to prepare a list of returning officers across the state. A team of Election Commission officials directed the state officials to start the first phase of testing of electronic voting machines from June 1.
Instructions have been given to organize a two-day workshop for District Election Officers, which will be organized by the Election Commission. Chief Electoral Officer Vishwaraj said that the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) have been placed in the districts after verification by the Electronic Corporation of India (ECIL).
In 2018, the elections were held on December 7. For holding the assembly elections either in November-end or early December, the ECI will be issuing the election schedule a month before polling. The elections were held nearly six months before schedule, after BRS president and chief minister Rao decided to dissolve the assembly on September 6, about nine months before completing the five-year tenure.
Election Commission officials suggested a training programme for officials of all levels of election duty. He said that maximum participation in voting should be ensured and the voting percentage should increase.
The meeting was attended by Principal Secretary Election Commission of India Avinash Kumar, Under Secretary, Election Commission of India Sanjay Kumar, Joint Chief Electoral Officer Ravi Kiran and Deputy Chief Electoral Officer Satyavani.
Hyderabad: Maulana Qubool Pasha Shuttari, a renowned cleric of Hyderabad passed away in the early hours of Monday. He was the convener of the Ruyat-e-Hilal (Moon Sighting) committee and the Secretary of Sadar Majlis Ulema-E-Deccan.
He was also a member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board and passed away at Owaisi Hospital Kanchan Bagh, at the age of 82.
The cleric had been unwell for the past few months and in the wee hours of Monday his condition deteriorated upon which he was shifted to the hospital, where he breathed his last breath. He is survived by a son and four daughters.
Various scholars from Hyderabad and other districts have expressed deep shock over the demise of Maulana Qubool Pasha. Maulana used to deliver sermons at Shuttaria Mosque, Dabeerpura, on Fridays.
According to sources from his family, his funeral prayers will be performed on Monday night at 11 pm at the Historic Makkah Masjid and burial will be held at the graveyard abutting Masjid-E-Shuttaria, in the inner dome of the shrine of Hazrat Kamil Shuttari.
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