Karnataka CM Questions BJP’s Protest over 216 Waqf properties
Reportedly karnataka cm Siddaramaiah recently launched an attack on former bjp cm Basavaraj Bommai and asked why the bjp, during his regime, had issued notices over 216 Waqf properties. “What right do they have to protest now," the cm had asked, adding that even after the government decided to withdraw the notices, they were issued when the bjp and the JD(S) were in power, and now the bjp is dodging a u turn for political mileage and election gains.Meanwhile Waqf minister BZ Zameer ahmed khan had earlier said that the bjp had raised this issue because the maharashtra elections and bypolls are approaching. Zameer said “The bjp has brought this up only because the maharashtra elections and bypolls are nearing. As a minister, I have been holding Waqf Adalat sessions over the past nine months, and I know what their concerns are". When responding to criticism from Khan, who called Pal’s visit “illegal" and outside the JPC’s mandate, Pal clarified the committee’s purpose to address stakeholder concerns over the proposed amendments. “This is precisely why we’re here," he stated.Moreover in thursday meeting, the first representation came from the BJP’s fact-finding committee on the Waqf issue in Vijayapura, presented by former minister Govind Karjol, who alleged that Khan was acting under karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah’s instructions. He said that the officials had initiated the process of changing land mutations in favour of the Waqf Board in haste. A fact-finding committee visited affected areas and met with farmers, discovering that the Sindhagi mutt a 12th-century mutt and a Chalukyan-era temple were listed as Waqf properties in land records, he said. Deputy leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly, Arvind Bellad, also submitted a representation urging the JPC to stop this “land jihad." He alleged that properties were being declared as Waqf assets without valid documentation.