Karnataka waqf row: Congress cites BJP govt panel’s recommendation to mark land as waqf property in revenue records

The Congress highlighted the study aft BJP leaders considered adjacent to MLA Basangouda Patil Yatnal launched a month-long “abolish waqf” campaign. Incidentally, Bangarappa is besides portion of the Yatnal camp.

Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister Priyank Kharge asked wherefore the erstwhile BJP authorities had notified waqf onshore and issued notices to farmers. “Why did the Kumar Bangarappa committee urge entering ‘waqf property’ successful onshore documents nether farmer’s names? Why were they instructed to reappraisal each waqf properties astatine the taluk level and marque entries ‘waqf property’ successful the Bhoomi software?” helium asked.

Accusing the BJP of peddling lies, Kharge said the party’s run was not aimed astatine helping farmers. “It is simply a ‘Vijayendra Hatao’ campaign,” helium said, hinting astatine Yatnal’s rivalry with BJP authorities president B Y Vijayendra, who is the lad of erstwhile main curate B S Yediyurappa.

Home Minister G Parameshwara said that notices were served for astir 2,900 acres of onshore during BJP rule. “The run by Yatnal is to embarrass the BJP. Since helium present knows that much notices were served during the presumption of Yediyurappa and Bommai, his run is meant to shame them,” helium said.

Yatnal launched the run contempt an announcement by the BJP that it would signifier 3 teams to circuit the authorities and cod grievances regarding notices served by the waqf board.

Speaking astatine the motorboat of the run successful Bidar, Yatnal alleged that “Muslim IAS officers” were liable for turning authorities onshore into waqf land. “Today, they are preparing to crook full Bidar into waqf property. That means determination is an effort to marque a Pakistan wrong India,” helium said.

The committee had observed that if the onshore belonging to the waqf committee was not registered arsenic specified successful the gross department’s spot register, determination were chances for it to beryllium illegally alienated oregon encroached on.

The committee frankincense recommended that each properties of the committee astatine the taluk level beryllium reviewed and marked arsenic waqf spot successful the gross department’s Bhoomi bundle to “conserve waqf properties”.

Bhoomi is simply a bundle instrumentality utilized to digitise onshore records and marque changes to the onshore registry. By making these entries successful the software, the section could fastener the survey numbers to forestall immoderate aboriginal transactions connected the land, the study said.

Noting that 4,663 acres 26 guntas of waqf onshore was encroached connected successful the state, the Bangarappa-led committee recommended territory administrations retrieve each encroached onshore and manus it implicit to the waqf board. It had recommended “strict action” to forestall immoderate commercialized oregon encroachment and besides enactment nether the Land Encroachment Act against individuals moving commercialized establishments illegally connected waqf land.

The BJP governments nether Yediyurappa and Basavaraj Bommai initiated the process of issuing notices to wide encroachments connected waqf onshore connected the ground of these recommendations. Subsequently, 1,735 notices were served during the BJP authorities and 2,865 acres of onshore was notified arsenic waqf land.