Hyderabad: Wakf Board elections on February 28

Hyderabad: The Telangana State Wakf Board office at Nampally is witnessing hectic activity these days with several key personalities of the Muslim community visiting the premises to file their nominations for the upcoming board elections. The TSWB elections are scheduled for February 28 as the term of the current board ends on February 22. The […]

Hyderabad: The Telangana State Wakf Board office at Nampally is witnessing hectic activity these days with several key personalities of the Muslim community visiting the premises to file their nominations for the upcoming board elections.

The TSWB elections are scheduled for February 28 as the term of the current board ends on February 22.

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The board comprises 11 members and while five of them are nominated by the government, the voters elect the remaining six members. The government nominates, one Shia and one Sunni scholar, two women – one each from Shia and Sunni sect and a government official above the rank of Deputy Secretary.

Of the six members to be elected one will be from the MP Quota, two from Legislative Council and Assembly quotas, one from Bar Council and remaining two from the Mutawalli and Managing Committee of Waqf institutions with an annual income of Rs. 1 lakh and above.

So far, the board received around 20 nominations from all categories except the MP quota. Among those who are filed in their nominations are TRS MLC Farooq Hussain, Karwan legislator Kauser Mohiuddin, advocate Zakir

Hussain and religious leader Akbar Nizamuddin. There are 475 voters who will vote on February 28. Mohd Saleem, the present chairman of the board held the post for five years.

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