Mumbai: Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Husain Dalwai has sought Centre's intervention for reducing the "financial burden" on Haj pilgrims, who he claimed have to foot additional charges due to unfair "rules of the Haj Committee."

In a letter to the External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Dalwai said the Haj Committee here is supposed to facilitate the pilgrimage and not "to intervene or interfere in the religious process".