Hyderabad, March 8 -- All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi has urged chief minister A Revanth Reddy to regularise the contract assistant professors in Telangana, as promised in the Congress' election manifesto.

Addressing a gathering of girl students during the foundation-stone laying ceremony of the new academic blocks of Veeranari Chakali Ilamma Women's University (formerly Koti Women's College) in Hyderabad on Saturday, March 8, Owaisi pointed out that Himachal Pradesh and Punjab have already regularised the contract assistant professors and after the Supreme Court's verdict in favour of the move, the Centre has also issued an office memorandum in its support.

"There is a need to end ...