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Vijayawada: Muslims demand judicial powers for Wakf Board

The leaders also sought the starting of the Madarsa Education Board to provide Urdu and Arabic education to Muslim students.

Vijayawada: The religious leaders of Ahle Sunnatul Jamaat stated that the Muslim community will support the political party which would really work for the development of the Muslims in the AP state.

The state-level meeting of Ahle Sunnatul Jamat was held at Kondapalli of Krishna district on Wednesday.

The meeting passed resolutions about the problems of Muslim community and alleged that the present government had totally failed to protect Wakf lands, had demolished mosques and dargahs. A demand was made for the renovation of demolished religious places.

AP Ahle Sunnatul Jamaat AP state convener Moulana Md Altaf Ali Raza lamented that the political parties were using Muslims as “curry leaves” and cheating the Muslim community by only giving promises and forgetting the same after winning elections.

He said that Muslim leaders and religious leaders had participated in the meeting in large numbers and they had expressed concern over the demolishing of mosques, dargahs and kabarasthans (graveyards) in the state.

Muslim preachers Moulana Abdul Khadeer Rizvi, Syed Khalil Ahmed Rizvi, Md Inteqab Rizvi, Moulana Mubarak Hussain and others objected to the AP government’s claim of Wakf lands as “government lands” and uploading information of the same on the government website.

They demanded the appointment of a committee to identify the Wakf lands and judicial powers to be given to the Wakf Board for the protection the Wakf lands.

The leaders also sought the starting of the Madarsa Education Board to provide Urdu and Arabic education to Muslim students.

They also demanded increase in reservations for Muslims and a 20 per cent housing allotment to Muslims in housing schemes, modernisation and reconstruction of mosques and dargahs and development of kabarasthans.

The leaders affirmed that the Muslim community would support that political party in the election which assures fulfilling the demands of the Muslim community.

( Source : Deccan Chronicle. )
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