Malik Motasim Khan

After decades long struggle of people of Telangana region, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha cleared the T-Bill allowing bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, which will result in formation of Telangana as 29th State of India. Following T-Bill clearance in Lok Sabh on 18 February 2014, Khan was spotted celebrating along with his party cadre in Hyderabad. He had been active supporter of Telangana Movement and led the ‘Telengana Garjana’ in 2010.

He said during a public meeting called ‘Telengana Garjana’ that successive state governments had neglected the Telangana region in basic sectors such education, employment, irrigation and industries – not kept many promises made at the time of merger for the development of the region.

In the public meeting, which was organised by the state chapter of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind at the Nizam College grounds in Hyderabad on 7 February 2010, Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao expressed that Muslims would not be assured of social justice unless they got political reservation.

In 2009, Khan met the then Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy along with other Jamaat-e-Islami Hind representatives to inform Reddy of the organisation’s support for Indian National Congress (Congress Party) in 2009 General Elections in the Indian state.

Malik Motasim Khan (Urdu: ملک معتصم خان ‎) is Member of Central Advisory Council of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind. He was the President of Andhra Pradesh Chapter of Welfare Party of India. He was the Ameer-e-Halqa (Zonal President) of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa during 2007–2011. He was also the National President of SIO(Students Islamic Organisation Of India) for two terms from 1995 to 1999.

The state government’s decision, announced in July 2007, to grant Muslims 4% reservations in the public sector and educational institutions had received mixed reactions from the local political community. Khan labelled the decision of the Andhra Pradesh government as a “placatory step” toward easing the critical conditions of the Muslims community.

He represented SIO at various international conferences. He participated in the 9th IIFSO conference at Istambul in Turkey. In 1998, Khan participated in the 8th World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) Conference in Amman, Jordan. Earlier, he received invitations from IIFSO, WAMY, and Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). He also attended IMA Youth Wing’s “From Darkness to Light” conference in Kuwait held in 2010 at the Masjid Al Kabir.

Thus, during his presidency, Khan distinguishably fine-tuned his leading abilities. He had been re-elected as President of SIO for another term 1997–99 as a result of his works. He wrote a number of articles on variety of subjects particularly with a view to guiding students and youth.

In 1995, he was elected National President of SIO for a two-year term (1995–97).

Khan joined Students Islamic Organisation of India while he was a high school student. In 1993, he was appointed State Secretary of SIO Andhra Pradesh. Later, he was elected as the State President of SIO Andhra Pradesh and he served in the position between 1993–95.

Khan graduated in science in 1989 from Nizamabad. He is a good orator with remarkable writing skills. He also holds master’s degrees in both Political science and Translation studies from Jamia Millia Islamia University and Maulana Azad National Urdu University respectively.