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Malegaon:
In a
scathing attack aimed at the Congress led UPA government in New
Delhi, Maulana Sayyad Mohammad Wali Rahmani alleged, the government
and big corporate houses have encroached over the Waqf Lands in New
Delhi and other places in the country.
“The government is not
serious in protecting the waqf lands. Because, it is the government
itself that has misused and encroached the waqf lands in a very
large scale”, he alleged.
“Let the government put
all the records relating to the Waqf Lands on computers. It will
show to the world that many buildings located on Bahadur Shah Zafar
Marg in New Delhi including Nanak Hall, Maulana Azad Medical
College, Panth Hospital, Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital, Link House,
the offices of National Herald, Gandhi Peace Foundation and Indian
Express, and also part of Rashtrapati Bhavan, Supreme Court
building, Indian Parliament and ITO are all constructed on waqf
lands”, he said while addressing the media persons today morning
in Malegaon.
Maulana Sayyad Mohammad
Wali Rahmani - General Secretary of All India Muslim Personal Board
(AIMPLB) and founder of Rahmani Foundation, Bihar was on a two-day
visit to Malegaon, the textile town in North Maharashtra dominated
by Muslims.
Stating that ever since
the government formed waqf boards, the situation has worsened and
misuse of waqf lands increased, Maulana Rahmani, who besides being
President of Madrasa Modernisation Committee formed by the UPA
Government in its earlier tenure is also a former MLC and Deputy Speaker of Bihar Assembly, said, “This is why we are
opposing the formation of Madrasa boards."
"We strongly believe that
under the Government control, Madrasas would lost their identities
and the very purpose of their establishment", he said.
He was also critical of
the archeology department that refrains the Muslims from offering
prayers in the mosque under its control.
“There are masjids
as well as mandirs under the archeology department. But,
while prayers are allowed in mandirs, Muslims are refrained
from offering prayers in masjids. This, at the time, when
there is no such law”, he said.
“This is a clear case
of discrimination and misuse of power", he said.
Recently, Outlook -
a leading fortnightly English Magazine, in its exclusive report had
also termed the misuse of waqf lands in India as the biggest land scam of
the history.
Claiming that there
are approximately 3,00,000 registered Wakf properties in India on
about four lakh acres of land, Outlook had noted, "The properties that
should have been used for the welfare of the Indian Muslims, are
mortgaged, sold and encroached upon with the connivance of the very
institutions and individuals responsible for safeguarding it."
Questioning the
functioning of the Wakf boards and highlighting the corruption within, the report
said, "The
Wakf boards in most states of India are repositories of corruption,
in league with land sharks and builders. They continue to get away
with the daylight robbery of their own community because, whenever
there is any demand for scrutiny, they crudely take cover behind the
“Islam in danger” sentiment."
Significantly, Maulana
Rahmani raised similar allegations in the public meeting that
preceded today’s press conference and also in front of Union
Industry Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on January
28, 2010 in Aurangabad.
The high-profile
Minister and former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, however, instead
of replying to the allegations could just say that many things he
heard from the Maulana were totally new to him.
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