Telangana government to give job, flat to Jaipur Express firing victim’s widow
Hyderabad (IANS). The Telangana government on Friday announced a government job and a double bedroom flat for the family of a Hyderabad-based man who was shot dead by a Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable on July 31 in the Jaipur-Mumbai Superfast Express.
Syed Saifuddin (48) was one of the four men who were shot dead by RPF constable Chetan Kumar.
Saifuddin, a resident of Bazar Ghat in Hyderabad, was returning after a trip to Ajmer with the owner of the mobile shop where he worked.
State Industries and Information Technology Minister KT Rama Rao announced in the state assembly on Friday that the government would provide a job to Saifuddin’s widow. Rama Rao, who is also the municipal administration and urban development minister, said, “We will give him a job in GHMC or HMDA or QQSUDA. I will issue orders tomorrow.”
Minister KTR also announced that the family would be allotted a flat under the double bedroom housing scheme by the government.
He made the announcement when All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Akbaruddin Owaisi raised the issue in the Assembly.
On Owaisi’s demand for compensation to the family, KTR said that the decision in this regard was taken by Chief Minister K.K. Chandrasekhar Rao will take it.
KTR, who is also the working president of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), announced that the party would deposit Rs 2 lakh each for Saifuddin’s three daughters. He suggested AIMIM to come forward to provide some financial assistance to the family.
Saifuddin, a native of Hamilapur village in Karnataka’s Bidar district, has three daughters, of whom the youngest is only six months old. The other two are six and four years old.
Raising the issue Akbaruddin Owaisi said that the RPF constable shot dead three Muslim passengers who had long beards. The AIMIM leader said the killings were a result of growing radicalization and hatred being spread to create enmity between Hindus and Muslims.
Owaisi alleged that people who captured power by spreading hatred were ruining the country. Stating that Telangana has kept communal forces away for the last nine years, he appealed to the state government to set an example by providing assistance to the aggrieved family.
KTR termed the killing of Saifuddin and others as unfortunate. He said that everyone knows who is responsible for this incident and the violence in Haryana and Manipur.
He termed it as a despicable attempt to spread hatred and create anarchy in the society in the name of religion for political gains. He said, “Politics in the name of religion is disgusting. This is not good for India and future generations.”
He hoped that wisdom would prevail and this country would come to its senses.
He called upon the Telangana society to reject such forces. He hoped that peace, communal harmony and ‘Ganga Jamuni Tehzeeb’ would prevail.
KTR hoped that “Hyderabad and the state would remain in the hands of a gentleman like KCR who ensured communal harmony”.
Expressing his heartfelt condolences to Saifuddin’s family, he assured that the Telangana government would provide all possible assistance.
