Telangana Deputy Chief Minister Mohammad Mahmood Ali addressed a letter to Union Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj urging her to divert any under-utilized Haj subsidies of the various States to Telangana so that the pilgrims from this State could use them to visit the holy place.
In the letter, Mahmood Ali said that some Indian states didn't use the full Haj subsidy granted to them as there was not enough demand. He requested her to re-allocate such unutilized funds to Telangana due to the large number of pilgrims that originated from here.
He said that 20,000 subsidies for Haj pilgrimages went unutilized in the Indian states, and suggested the diverting of those funds to Telangana.