Senior BRS leader and former minority wing district president Mohammed Tajuddin died of heart stroke while undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Khammam. Former Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar and several BRS leaders paid tributes and consoled his family.
The Karnataka minister's allegations were false and the Congress leaders were spreading false propaganda the party's Minority Declaration failed to impress Muslims in Telangana. Congress never paid salaries to imams and mouzans reading namaz in mosques, but Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao was paying honorarium to them, he said.