The Karnataka authorities revealed on Wednesday that of the 11,204 farmers who acquired notices from the Waqf Board over land encroachment, round 81 per cent are Muslim, with solely 2,080 farmers from the Hindu neighborhood.
The present waqf land stands at 20,054 acres, considerably lowered from the 1.12 lakh acres listed in a 1974 gazette notification. (ANI PHOTO)
In keeping with Indian Specific, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah clarified {that a} committee, led by a retired excessive courtroom decide, can be fashioned to look at whether or not temples and land cultivated by farmers fall beneath waqf property.
The chief minister additionally assured the Karnataka Meeting that the federal government is not going to take away these temples that are constructed on Waqf properties. In case notices have been served to them, then they are going to be withdrawn, he mentioned.
Income Minister Krishna Byre Gowda, talking on behalf of the federal government, defined that out of the 20,000 acres of waqf land in Karnataka, solely 4,500 acres are cultivable, making up simply 0.006% of the entire agricultural land within the state. He accused the BJP of spreading misinformation relating to Muslims encroaching on Hindu land.
The Waqf Act, established earlier than Independence, was additional defined by Gowda, who highlighted that a lot of the waqf land had been redistributed to farmers beneath the Land Income Act and Inam Abolition Act. The present waqf land stands at 20,054 acres, considerably lowered from the 1.12 lakh acres listed in a 1974 gazette notification, the report added.
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This announcement got here after the BJP staged a walkout, demanding that Housing, Waqf and Minority Affairs Minister Zameer Ahmed Khan deal with all queries. The BJP additionally referred to as for the withdrawal of the 1974 notification. Siddaramaiah rejected this, stating that the notification was based mostly on the Central Waqf Act, which the state authorities can’t amend.
In response to considerations over encroachment notices served to temples, Siddaramaiah assured that any notices issued to temples and farmers can be withdrawn. The continued debate noticed a pointy change between the ruling and opposition benches, with the BJP accusing the federal government of politicizing the waqf subject.
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