Hyderabad, TELANGANA :

Former Indian cricket captain and former MP from Moradabad, Mohd. Azharuddin has been appointed as the working president of Telanagana Pradesh Congress Committee.

He will be the fourth working president and appointed ahead of the Telangana Assembly elections. However, he is associated with the party’s ongoing electoral campaign.

Mr. Azharuddin, who is keen on contesting from Secunderabad Parliamentary constituency, said if the party wishes he won’t mind contesting from any other constituency in Telangana.

Speaking to media in Hyderabad after his appointment, Mr. Azaharuddin demanded an apology from Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao for “intimidating” a person who questioned him on the unfulfilled promise of 12% reservations to Muslims. He said Mr. Rao should have answered the question instead of intimidating the person who posed it.

Mr. Azharuddin said he was not here to “get something from politics but give back something to the society” after playing cricket for the country for a long time.

Mr. Azharuddin predicted that the People’s front of Congress, TTDP, CPU and Telamgana Jana Samithi will romp home easily and asked people to vote for the alliance.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> States> Telangana / by R. Ravikanth Reddy / Hyderabad – November 30th, 2018