Telangana - Congress’ minority cell chairman post still vacant
The congress has yet to appoint a successor to Abdullah Sohail, who left the party to join the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), four months after Sohail's resignation. Many Muslim leaders are concerned and perplexed about the vacant post since it is crucial to the party's success in all 33 of the state's districts as well as in the hyderabad Parliament seat.
In the days leading up to the november 30 assembly elections of the previous year, Shaikh Abdullah Sohail, the former head of the telangana Pradesh congress Committee's (TPCC) Minority Cell, left the party on october 29. With a resignation letter citing problems with ticket allocation, he joined the BRS. "The party has won the election and it has been more than four months. A top Muslim politician from the congress who wished to remain anonymous stated, "Muslim votes in the districts are very important, as there are 40 out of 119 assembly seats where Muslim votes are over 10% at least."
The congress leader claims that if the party doesn't establish a district cell, Muslim votes may go to the BRS. In the most recent assembly elections, the BRS managed to get Muslim votes in hyderabad, but not in the countryside. The BRS will benefit if we treat it softly, he continued.
The head of the congress informed india Herald that the Minority Cell chairman should have been chosen by the party last year. Furthermore, in order for the congress to have any chance of challenging the All india Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), which has held the hyderabad Lok Sabha seat since 1984, it would need to present a formidable minority face. Asaduddin Owaisi, the head of AIMIM, garnered over five lakh votes to win the seat in the 2019 elections. With somewhat fewer than 2.5 lakh votes, the bjp candidate was his closest opponent. Then, Feroze Khan, a candidate for congress, came very close to receiving 50,000 votes.