Muslim advocates’ forum backs TRS candidate

Hyderabad: Telangana Muslim Advocates Forum on Wednesday announced its support to the TRS for the ensuing graduate MLC elections. In a meeting held on Wednesday, nearly 300 advocates expressed their solidarity with TRS and reposed their faith in the party’s ‘successful governance’.

Nearly 200 Muslim lawyers declared their support for TRS.

Addressing the forum, former minister and MLC Mohammed Fareeduddin extended support to the TRS. He said, “Telangana is a state of peace and development. Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is a minority friend and an Urdu speaker. His consciousness of issues faced by the Muslim community has helped the government take constructive steps for the welfare of minorities on a large scale.”

Convenor of the meeting, state president of Telangana Muslim Advocates Forum and Waqf board member Waheed Ahmed stressed that the government believes in giving equal rights to Muslim lawyers in judiciary, an assurance, brought forward from their previous representations submitted to KCR. He urged the government to provide Muslims at least 4% reservation in courts. He urged the government to provide reservation to Muslim lawyers so that they can be appointed as additional advocate general, public prosecutor, government pleaders and additional public prosecutor and other positions while observing that the representation of Muslim lawyers is zero. He added that “in all legislative commissions at least those with a legal education should be given the presidency and membership in the interest of the society and the state.”