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Senior scribe Jafri is MIM’s MLC candidate TNN, Apr 20, 2010, 05.20am IST HYDERABAD: In a surprise move, the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) on Monday filed the nomination of senior journalist Syed Amin-ul-Hasan Jafri for elections to one of the three seats to the Legislative Council for which elections are to be held on May 7. This is for the first time that the MIM in its 60 years of history is sending a mediaperson to the legislature. "It is not just politicians who serve society. There are intellectuals in different fields who have been contributing for the welfare of the people. We wanted to acknowledge this fact by fielding Jafri for the Council seat," MIM president and Hyderabad Parliament member Asaduddin Owaisi said after announcing Jafri’s candidature from Hyderabad local body constituency. Jafri, who had taken leave from journalism to work for an advertising firm for the past two years, said that the MIM offer came as a surprise to him. "I spoke with my family before saying yes to the offer. As a journalist, I have spent most of my life with politicians but never thought that I would enter the legislature. This is a good opportunity to serve the people through a different medium," he told TOI. Of the three Council seats for which elections are being held, two fall in the GHMC area for which the Congress has nominated M S Prabhakar and MIM Jafri. The third seat, which falls under the Ranga Reddy local bodies, is likely to witness a contest between TDP candidate and Congress nominee Kasani Gyaneswar. If elected, Jafri, 55, will be the second MIM member in the Legislative Council besides Altaf Haider Rizvi. The party has seven members in the Legislative Assembly and one member of Lok Sabha. ------------------------------------ -- INFORMATION OVERLOAD? Get all ZESTMedia mails sent out in a span of 24 hours in a single mail. Subscribe to the daily digest version by sending a blank mail to [email protected], OR, if you have a Yahoo! Id, change your settings at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/join/ PARTICIPATE Share media news, discuss journalism issues and network with media professionals across South Asia on this mailing list. Just write to [email protected] TELL FRIENDS TO SIGN UP If you got this mail as a forward, subscribe to ZESTMedia by sending a blank mail to [email protected] OR, if you have a Yahoo! ID, by visiting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/join/ Also have a look at our sister list, ZESTCaste: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
