By TwoCircles.net reporter,
Tiruchirapalli: Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam (TMMK) will make formal inauguration of the Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (MMK), its newly-floated political party, at the party’s state conference at Chennai after the rainy season.
Addressing a press conference here on 6th July TMMK president M H Jawahirullah announced it and said efforts were on to register the MMK with the Election Commission. He further said the party would contest in the ensuing Lok Sabha elections.
He appealed to UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi to honour the Congress party’s promise, made during the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, to provide reservation for Muslims in education and jobs at the national level. Jawahirullah said the assurance was included in the UPA’s Common Minimum Programme (CMP). He also urged the Centre to place the Justic Ranganatha Mishra Commission’s recommendations in Parliament and implement the same immediately.
To a question, he said the Centre should drop the Indo-US nuclear deal.