Mangalore: Former mayor Ashraf resigns from Congress

Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore

Updated

Mangalore, Jan 8: Following the appointment of Abdul Rashid Haji as chairman of district Wakf advisory committee, former mayor K Ashraf tendered his resignation to the Congress party.

Ashraf, who served president of Congress city block (north), stated in his resignation letter that he was unhappy with the fact that a person who is not a member of the Congress party has been appointed as chairman of district Wakf advisory committee, and that Congress party workers have been completely neglected. In protest of these two issues, he was tendering his resignation from the Congress party, he stated.

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Mangalore: Rashid Haji appointed chairman of district Wakf advisory committee

Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (MD)
With Inputs from Media Release

Mangalore, Jan 8: The Karnataka State Wakf Board has appointed Abdul Rashid Haji (S M Rasheed) as chairman of Wakf advisory committee, Dakshina Kannada district for a period of three years.

A senior businessman, Abdul Rashid Haji has been actively involved in social work and religious service for the past several years.

He is the proprietor of SMR Group of Builders & Developers, managing partner of Westgate Realtors and chairman of Adarsh English Medium School.

He also serves as chairman of Melkar Women’s PU & Degree College (Institution devoted exclusively for the uplifting of poor children), chairman of Khairya Trust (A home for orphan, poor and destitute girls), joint secretary of Badriya Group of Institutions, and treasurer of Islamic Cultural Centre (Takwa Masjid, Pumpwell), as treasurer of Zeenath Baksh Jumma Masjid and Idgah, general secretary of All India Milli Council, DK district, vice-president of Al-Azharia Association (Al Madarasathul Azharia, established in 1927), secretary of Fouzi Jumma Masjid, member of Rahmaniya Jumma Masjid and general secretary of Mangalore Hajj executive committee.