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Plea to implement Sachar panel report

Staff Reporter

43 per cent of 15 crore Muslims living below the poverty line

KADAPA: Muslim leaders called for a mass movement on Sunday to demand implementation of Justice Rajender Sachar Committee recommendations for improving the living conditions of Muslims.

Former president of A.P. Panchayat Raj Employees' Association S. Jamal Vali, United Muslim Forum vice-chairman Syed Shah Lateef, United Muslim Society general secretary M.A. Hameed and retired District Minority Welfare Officer S.M. Bukhari, all of Kurnool, alleged that the assertion of A.P. Forest Development Corporation Chairman Shaik Hussain on welfare of Muslims was an eyewash.

About 43 per cent of 15 crore Muslims, working out to 13.4 per cent of population in the country, remained below poverty line, lived in huts in slums and lacked basic amenities, they said in a statement here.

Hardly 1.3 per cent of Muslims in rural areas graduated. Muslims were lagging behind because Governments had failed to establish a secular society, they alleged.

They called upon Muslims to elect Lions Club of Annamayya chairman P. Khasim Khan as MLC, as he was striving for uplift of poor Muslims and taking up social activities.

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