Hyderabad: After a gap of 21 years Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen has succeeded in installing its own mayor in the city of Hyderabad and in the process created a record of sorts.
The party has chosen 31-year-old Mohammad Majid Hussain, the youngest mayor the city has ever had.
A Bachelor of Computer Application, who worked for four years with HSBC bank before entering active politics, Majid Hussain was apparently hand-picked by the MIM President Asaduddin Owaisi because of his suave personality and affable manners. Majid Hussian was elected to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation for the first time.
The MIM succeeded in getting its nominee elected to the post of the mayor under a deal with the Congress party, which had its mayor ruling the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation ruling for the last two years from Ahmad Nagar constituency.
G. Rajkumar of Congress was elected as the deputy mayor in an election which was marred by the boycott by the other parties in protest against the failure of the Congess-MIM combine in solving the civic problems. Majid Hussain comes from an educated middle class family. Both his parents were gazetted officers in the government.
While Majid's choice was being seen as an attempt by the MIM leadership to promote new generation and infuse fresh blood, his choice has also raised eye brows in some circles.
According to the police records, the young mayor faces seven cases, including two allegations of assaulting his political rivals and one incident of preventing police officials from discharging their duties.
