,Preparation to snatch land from poor and sell it to mafia,
NDTV team reached Muzaffarpur, where many families in Muslim areas are fighting to save their ancestral land from the Waqf Board. Their biggest fear is that their lands could be sold to the mafia that has been keeping an eye on them like vultures for years. Many Muslim families say that they have been living on Waqf land since before independence but now the Waqf Board is sending them notices asking them to vacate the house. People say that they are so poor that they don’t even have food to fill their stomachs. They have to sleep on an empty stomach. People allege that the Waqf Board is linked to mafias and builders and preparations are underway to sell their lands.
Living since 1930, now fear of eviction from Waqf
Maulana Kazim Shabib said that Waqf has been exploiting us for a long time. The new law has raised hopes of transparency. How can Tejashwi say this, are we living in a dictatorship? Tejashwi should come and see how Waqf is protecting the goons. He is among the goons and Why do you want to save the mafia?
He said that poor Muslims were looted during the entire rule of Lalu. The new law will give us relief, but by talking about removing it, Tejashwi is increasing our problems. He said that I have my own land here. I have built my own house. Our ancestors were living here since 1930 before independence. Suddenly the Waqf Board is giving notice asking to vacate the land, why? This is their hooliganism.
Victims get hope from new Waqf law
After this, the NDTV team met Sikandar Ali, who lives in a dilapidated one-room hut with his wife and five children. They said that we do not have food, we are not able to send children to school, then how will we take possession of the land? Waqf is sending us a notice to vacate the house. Where should we go? He said that Waqf is made to help the poor, but to fill their pockets they are throwing us out to die. There is no doubt that the new Waqf law is a good law and it can help us.
Yunus Ali and Sharafat Ali also said that we do not have enough money to eat properly, we often sleep on an empty stomach. Waqf wants to take over our land and give it to builders. Where should we go with our daughters? The women also alleged that they were being intimidated. It is being said to vacate the space. But where should we go, we have nothing.
Waqf Board termed the allegations as false
When NDTV spoke to Mir Hasan Waqf State’s Mutawalli Syed Athar Mehdi regarding these allegations, he called all the allegations false. He claimed that people have encroached upon the land. We have sent them notices, they will have to vacate the land. There is nothing as is being alleged.