Hyderabad: The Telangana state government has agreed in principle to lay the foundation stone for the masjid on February 26 in place of the two masjids that were brought down during the demolition of the old Secretariat complex in July last year.
This followed a meeting of public representatives, representatives of community organisations and religious scholars that was convened by minorities welfare minister Koppula Eshwar on Wednesday.
AIMIM MLA Ahmed Balala submitted a detailed plan of the proposed masjid which was prepared by engineers as per instructions issued by MIM Assembly floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi. Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao had entrusted the task to Akbaruddin Owaisi to prepare a plan.
One of the participants at the meeting said home minister Mohammed Mahmood Ali, who along with Eshwar led the meeting, tried to convince the participants not to insist on laying the foundation stone immediately as debris was still not removed completely from the…