Chennai: Chief minister M K Stalin on Thursday said govt would consider the request to classify those who converted from SC, BC, MBC and Denotified Communities to Islam, as Backward Classes. He announced that the govt would renovate 2.5 lakh houses, built under various schemes prior to 2021, at an estimated cost of 2,000 crore in two years.
The chief minister was responding to a plea from MMK MLA M H Jawahirullah that members of these communities who converted to Islam were not treated as BC (Muslims).A circular issued by the AIADMK regime in 2012 classified the converts as ‘other communities’. TNN
The chief minister was responding to a plea from MMK MLA M H Jawahirullah that members of these communities who converted to Islam were not treated as BC (Muslims).A circular issued by the AIADMK regime in 2012 classified the converts as ‘other communities’. TNN