KCR's Dawat-e-Iftar: 10,000 people attend ‘biggest ever’ Iftar
Hyderabad: Around 10,000 people turned up for the Iftar hosted by Telangana CM K. Chandrasekhar Rao at Nizam College grounds on Sunday evening.
Organisers said this was the biggest ever Iftar hosted in the state. Dawat-e-Iftars were also organised in 100 mosques in the city and in one mosque in each of the 95 Assembly constituencies.
“People of Telangana wanted (a separate) state and the almighty granted it and now Telangana is progressing. The ‘Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb’ (the peaceful co-existence of the Hindu and Muslim cultures), for which Telangana was known and even referred to by Mahatma Gandhi, will be brought back,” the CM said. He said power supply was a major issue, and arrangements have been made to deal with it.
The state had earlier announced a Rs 26-crore package to coincide with the Ramzan celebrations that includes Rs 4 crore for Iftar expenses, Rs 9.75 crore for distribution of clothes to poor Muslims and payment of honorarium totalling Rs 12 crore per annum for imams and moazzams. Among the guests were Union minister Bandaru Dattatreya, Deputy CM Mahmood Ali, clerics and scholars from different communities, ministers, MLAs, and school children.
