LUCKNOW: The
Uttar Pradesh government on Friday nominated eight members including a chairperson to the
UP State Minority Commission
, after getting approval on the names by governor
Anandiben Patel.
The newly appointed commission will be valid for three years, as per the government order that was released on Saturday by the state minority welfare department.
The commission will be headed by
Agra
based Ashfaq Saifi who is a member of the BJP and a former national secretary minority morcha at the BJP.
The seven members include, Varanasi resident Haider Abbas Chand, Meerut resident novelist Suresh Jain Rituraj who is, Navendu Singh from Shahjahanpur, Samman Afroz Khan from Aligarh, Bakshish Ahmad Warsi from Gorakhpur, Lucknow's Rumana Siddiqui and Anita Jain. Majority of the commission members are also members of the BJP.
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