Waqf stir: BJP leader Ashoka says govt will be responsible for collapse of law and order

NT Correspondent

Mysuru

Opposition leader in the state assembly R Ashok on Monday stated that the BJP will take the ongoing anti-Waqf agitation to its logical end. Speaking to reporters after visiting two villages where farmers' land is notified as Waqf property, Ashok claimed the state government was involved in appeasement politics. The Mysuru district administration has issued notices to several farmers and residents of Gunduraonagar and Muneshwaranagar in Mysuru marking them as wakf properties. It has also issued a notice to the Basavanna Mutt and several other religious and educational institutions of Muneshwaranagar claiming they were wakf properties. He alleged that the state government was planning to convert Muneshwaranagar of Mysore into 'Mullanagar'.

The Congress government led by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has not only served notices to farmers through Wakf Minister Zameer Ahmed Khan but was also involved in issuing RTC and other land record rights to the state Waqf Board. The BJP unit is collecting details of farmer properties marked as wakf properties, he said. He also referred to the registering of an FIR against Chandrashekharanatha Swamiji (on the voting rights of Muslims issue) and warned that the state government will be held responsible if law and order collapses.