Why does the Waqf Board have nearly 9.4 lakh acres of land in various places?
In this week (last week of October 2024), Waqf Board claimed 40 acres of land around the Kanifnath temple in Ahmednagar (Ahilyanagar) in Maharashtra. Waqf Borad also claimed 750 acres of land in outskirts of Hyderabad, Telengana. Waqf Board also claimed 1200 acres of land in Vijayapura district, Karnataka. The important thing to be noted here is congress is in Govt in Telengana and Karnataka. Powerful congressmen are controlling the state Waqf Baord and Waqf ministry. Karnataka opposition leader Vijayendra speaking to reporters, hit out at the ruling congress for the proposed land grab. ‘Farmers' ancestral land was all of a sudden claimed as Waqf property, farmers will come on the streets, what should they do? The congress is indulging in appeasing minorities and thereby dividing the country in the name of the religion, they have been doing it for long. They are trying to incite riots in the state under the leadership of Zameer Ahemed Khan (Waqf Minister)’, he said. Vijeyendra clai...