Prominent Muslim body slams CM for sealing Wakf Board office

Hyderabad : The All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat, an umbrella body of Muslim organisations and eminent personalities, has strongly condemned Chief Minister K. Chandrashekaar Rao for sealing off the Wakf Board office.

In a letter to the Chief Minister, Majlis-e-Mushawarat president Navaid Hamid described the move as "unprecedented, defiant of any logic about its efficacy in curbing alleged corruption in Wakf Board and also prima facie illegal'. He said that the sealing of Wakf Board reflects government's disregard for minority institutions.

"Wakf Board is an autonomous body and functions under the Wakf Act 1995. This type of illegal move to seal the board office not only belittles the position of a statutory body but also amounts to showing contempt to a Central Act. This is also alarming in the backdrop of the Telangana Government, reportedly, closing the office of State Minorities Commission a few months back, throwing its chairman unceremoniously and dumping the office records etc., Both the acts put together, unfortunately, give a creeping feeling that the Telangana government is bend upon belittling minority institutions," said the Majlis-e-Mushawarat President.

He also alleged that the post sealing events only confirmed the apprehensions that sealing was not done for its professed purpose because no tangible corrective measures have been made and no guilty person has been punished.

The Majlis-e-Mushawarat demanded that the State Government restore the functioning of Board in full and also appoint State Minorities Commission at the earliest.