Thread by @IamTheStory__

Waqf Act - A tool of land grabbing given by the Indian National Congress to the Muslims of the Bharat

1. The Hindus who came to India after partition from Pakistan, their properties in Pakistan were occupied by the Muslims and the Government of Pakistan. But the Government of India gave the land of Muslims who went from India to Pakistan to the Waqf Boards. After which the Waqf Board Act was passed in the year 1954. But in the year 1995, by changing the Waqf Board Act, the Waqf Boards were given unlimited rights to acquire land. After which the property of the Waqf Board increased. In the year 2009, the properties of the Waqf Board were spread over four lakh acres of land. Which has now more than doubled. According to the data of Waqf Management System of India, at present there are a total 8,54,509 properties with Waqf Boards which are spread over more than eight lakh acres of land. You will be surprised to know that after the Army and Railways, LARGEST LANDBAK is with the Waqf Boards.

2. The acquisition of land by the Catholic Church of India worth more than 20,000 crores, can be attributed mainly to the Indian Churches Act of 1927, which was implemented during the British dominion. Under this act, the British dominion leased the lands acquired through their conquests in various wars at discounted rates to aid in the propagation of Christianity among the populace. This enabled the Church to acquire land across India and establish numerous institutions, including religious ones, as mentioned earlier, to disseminate their message to the masses. However, the legal status of this land acquisition remains a topic of debate.

3. The Sikh Gurdwaras Act 1925 was passed by the Punjab legislative council in British India to resolve a dispute over the management of Sikh gurdwaras. The law legally defined Sikh identity and brought Sikh gurdwaras under the control of an elected body of orthodox Sikhs. As per this act any structure notified by the government as Gurudwara shall fall under the definition provided in this act along with all the properties associated with the notified structure as Gurudwara.

4. So what about Hindu temples and religious places.
Let's us explore, how Nehru and Congress did their best to wreck the Hindu Temples and their cultural heritage by creating articles in the constitution of the Bharat to give free hand to the minorities especially waqf board and the Catholic church to amass a billion-dollar empire of the properties without any abandon.

1. So what happened to the Hindu Temples?

Until the British came to India, temples were managed by local communities. They were centers of dance and art, and at the heart of a massive, decentralized trade network.
Every temple had charitable endowments, including property given to temples, for the benefit of the community. The benefits included rest houses, pathshalas, gaushalas, and institutions for the advancement of education and feeding of the poor.

For the British agenda of colonization and conversions to succeed, the temple organization had to be weakened. So, temples were brought under government control mainly in south India because not too many temples in the north possessed such massive property or wealth. The British introduced The Madras Regulation VII of 1817 to do this.

In 1840, there was a directive from the East India Company to return the temples to their trustees, because Christian missionaries, in India and abroad, did not like the idea of Christians managing Hindu temples.
Thus, temple management was slowly, handed over to trustees and in case of prominent temples to Mutts by 1845. The Board of Revenue supervised the administration of large temples.

Next came The Religious Endowments Act 1863, which handed over temple administration to the trustees from the British government.
The primary purposes of worship and utilization of funds for the upkeep of temples were never lost sight of by the Mutathipatis or other trustees.

Hundreds of temples in the Madras Presidency were handed over to the respective trustees with the government playing little or no role in supervising them. Trustees ran the temple following the tenets applicable to the temple.

All was well till the British introduced The Madras Religious and Charitable Endowments Act 1925. It drew large protests from Muslims and Christians. Thus, it was redrafted to exclude them, made applicable to Hindus only and renamed as the Madras Hindu Religious and Endowments Act 1927.

In 1925, the Sikh Gurdwaras Act was passed that brought gurdwaras under the control of an elected body of Sikhs. So the British had one set of laws for Hindus and another for the Sikhs, Muslims and Christians.

Even today, Hindu educational institutions, temples, religious traditions are subject to government control and judicial review, look for instance at the Supreme Court order on the Sabarimala temple.

But a radical change was introduced in the legislation by way of Act XII of 1935, through which temples could be notified by the government and their administration taken over. This way the Hindu Religious Endowment Board assumed powers to take over and administer temples. The board consisted of three to five members.

Indic scholar and author @subhash_kak wrote:
"The state governments have based their policy on the recommendation of the Hindu Religious Endowments Commission headed by CP Ramaswamy Aiyer in 1960 that Hindu temples and maths be considered as belonging to the public. The government entered into the religious sphere when the Indian government was very aggressively pushing state control over all aspects of Indian life."

Post-Independence, the Tamil Nadu government took control of temples and their funds by an act passed in 1951 called the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Act, 1951.The act’s provisions were challenged in the Madras High Court and subsequently in the Supreme Court in the Shirur Math case. Many provisions of the 1951 act were struck down by both courts. With some changes, The Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Act was passed in 1959. The Congress was in power in the country then.

It said that the purpose of the act was to see to it that religious trusts and institutions are properly administered and ensure that the income is not misused.
The new act abolished the Hindu Religious Endowments Board and vested its authority in the Hindu religious and charitable endowments department of the government headed by a commissioner.

This act opened up a template for other state governments to wrest control of the Hindu Temples and to control their functioning and management while Waqf Board, SGPC and Catholic church of India remain free at will for their functioning and management through their respective bodies with quasi-judicial powers.
The India Church Act of 1927 and the Independence Act 1947 have made Indian Church Trustees as the absolute owners of all church properties in the country. Both Catholic church of India and Church of south India are owners of a billion dollar land and property empire.

2. How Congress's policy of appeasement created Waqf Board?

Congress created Waqf Act 1954 to give all properties left behind by the Muslims immigrating to Pakistan to the new body created under the tutelage of the Central Waqf Council.
Since then, Waqf Act was amended multiple times by the respective congress governments and in 1995, Congress Government created Waqf Act, 1995 to give judicial and adminisrative powers to the Waqf Board.
Till now 30 Waqf boards are functioning in India:
Andhra Pradesh Waqf Board
Assam Wakf Board
Bihar State Sunni Waqf Board
Bihar State Shia Wakf Board
Chhattisgarh Wakf Board
Delhi Wakf Board
Gujarat Wakf Board
Haryana Waqf Board
Himachal Wakf Board
Jharkhand State Sunni Waqf Board
Karnataka Wakf Board
Kerala Wakf Board
Madhya Pradesh Wakf Board
Maharashtra State Board of Waqfs
Manipur Wakf Board
Meghalaya Wakf Board
Odisha Wakf Board
Punjab Wakf Board
Rajasthan Board of Muslim Wakfs
Tamilnadu Wakf Board
Tripura Wakf Board
Telangana Waqf Board
Uttarakhand Wakf Board
Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board; Shia Wakf Board (Yogi Adityanath Govt issued notification to abolish them)
West Bengal Wakf Board
Andaman Nicobar Wakf Board
Chandigarh Wakf Board
Laxdweep Wakf Board
Dadra & Nagar Haveli Wakf Board
Puducherry Wakf Board

In 2005 The Sachar Committee was created with a seven-member high-level committee established in March 2005 by former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The committee was headed by former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court Rajinder Sachar to study the social, economic and educational condition of Muslims in India.
The committee prepared a 403-page report, titled "Social, Economic and Educational Status of the Muslim Community of India: A Report", and presented it to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament, on 30 November 2006, 20 months after obtaining the terms of reference from the Prime Minister's Office.
The Sachar Committee highlighted and presented its suggestions on how to remove impediments those preventing Indian Muslims from fully participating in the economic, political, and social mainstream of Indian life. The report was the first of its kind to reveal the "backwardness" (a term used in Indian academic and legal discourse for historically dispossessed or economically vulnerable communities, not meant to be pejorative) of Indian Muslims. An issue highlighted was that while Muslims constitute 14% of the Indian population, they only comprise 2.5% of the Indian bureaucracy. The Sachar Committee concluded that the conditions facing Indian Muslims was below that of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
In response to the committee's findings, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram proposed an increase to the National Minorities Development and Finance Corporation's (NMDFC) budget, citing new duties and expanded outreach that the institution would take on to implement the committee's recommendations.
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This report gave a new validation to the already emboldened Waqf Board under the rule of the congress.
But in 2011 Justice Shashvat Kumar, who headed the Shashvat Committee prepared a status report on Muslims in India and the finding of this report was that Nationwide, Waqf properties constitute a land bank worth Rs. 1.2 lakh crore and could have generated annual returns of Rs. 12,000 crores but yielded only Rs. 163 crores and found that there was "a severe shortage of senior government officers who are Muslim to manage waqf affairs. A separate cadre would mean officers who are not only permanent but also qualified enough".

So, Congress Government again amended Waqf Act in 2013 to redefine the "Waqf" and increase its power to notify and takeover properties it considered as Waqf properties.
In the next part of the thread we will see how Hindus of the Bharat had to undergo this religious tyranny gifted by the Congress to the Waqf Baord.minorityaffairs.gov.in/show_content.p…

3. The Tyranny of the Waqf Board

In the year 2009, the properties of the Waqf Board were spread over four lakh acres of land. Which has now more than doubled. Whereas the land in the country is the same as it was before....!!!!
So, how is the Waqf Board’s land increasing?
Wherever the Waqf Board gets the boundary wall of the cemetery done in the country, it considers the land around it as its property. Similarly, illegal shrines and mosques are gradually declared by the Waqf Board as their property. In simple language, people call this encroachment and the Waqf Board has got the right to this encroachment.

So how this miraculous property growth happened?

Let's look at certain provisions of the Waqf Act, thanks to the Congress governments:

1. Section 3 of the Waqf Act, 1995 states that if the Waqf "thinks" that the land belongs to a Muslim, then it is the property of the Waqf. It should be noted here that just "thinking of Waqf" is enough, Waqf Board does not need any proof for this.
If Waqf accepts that your property is not yours but Waqf Board’s, then you cannot even go to court. You can approach the Waqf Tribunal Court.

2. Section 85 of the Waqf Act states that if you cannot satisfy the Waqf Board Tribunal that it is your own land, then you will be ordered to vacate the land. The decision of the Tribunal will be final. No court, not even the Supreme Court, can change the decision of the Waqf Tribunal.

3. Section 40 of the Waqf Act states that when the Waqf Board lays a claim on the land of a person, it is not the responsibility of the Waqf Board to prove the claim on the land, but the real owner of the land has to prove the ownership of his land.
That is, if the Waqf Board claims any land, then understand that the Waqf Board has become the owner of the land.

So now apply all the IQ you have and decide for yourself that how will you fight with this religious jigoism, if Waqf Board claims that your house is a Waqf property....!!!!

Video Credit: @JaipurDialogues

4. The Congress minority card of the Secularism

In 2014, just months before the elections, congress gifted 123 prime properties in Delhi to the Waqf board.
The very same Congress which keeps harping the sermon of Secularism, opened its dirty playbook of religious appeasement and opened a jackpot for the Waqf Board.
These properties are located in high-value areas such as Connaught Place, Janpath, Ashok Road, Babar Road, Lodhi Road, Mathura Road, Pandara Road, Jungpura, Karol Bagh, and Daryaganj.
Later on, in the year 2023, Modi Govt asked Delhi Waqf Board to hand over the properties to Govt of India or else provide the documents for the ownership.
Waqf Board complied silently without any victim card 😂

5. Strange Property Claims Made by the Waqf Board

Waqf board has made some very strange claims to the properties across the Bharat:
In the year 2018, the the UP Sunni Waqf Board claimed that Taj Mahal is the property of the Waqf Board..😂

The Waqf board counsel told the bench of Justice Deepak Misra, CJI that Taj indeed is a Waqf property.

The Supreme Court of India asked the UP Sunni Waqf board to share the "WAQFNAMA" (A deed or document signed by the owner of the property to pledge the property to the Waqf board) signed by the Shahjahan in 1631 to prove that indeed the Taj mahal is a Waqf property belonging to the UP Sunni board..!!!
Bench also comprised of the present CJI DY Chandrachud and Justice AM Khanwilkar.
Honorable court dismissed the case as the waste of the time..😂😂

6. Strange Property Claims Made by the Waqf Board

Waqf Board had written an application to Gujarat High Court in 2021, staking claim on the ownership of two islands in Bet Dwarka in Devbhoomi Dwarka. As per a report in Gujarati daily Divya Bhaskar, the hearing of the application was heard in the court of Justice Sangeeta Vishen.
The Waqf committee in its application claimed that the ownership of two islands on Bet Dwarka island belongs to the Waqf Board.
On hearing this, the Gujarat High Court expressed disproval and hit out, “Are you aware of what you are saying? How can Waqf Board claim ownership of land in Krishnanagari?’ and refused to hear the application.

There are total 8 small islands in the Bet Dwarka cluster. The Sunni Waqf Board has written application staking ownership claims on them. They have claimed that the land on the nearby islands in Bet Dwarka belong to the Waqf Board. On hearing this, the High Court was upset and asked them to reread their application and submit another revised application in vacation court.

7. Strange Property Claims Made by the Waqf Board

In 2022 Tamilnadu Waqf boar claimed that the entire village of Thiruchenthurai is a waqf property...!!!
Thiruchenthurai is a village located on the Kavery river's bank in Tiruchirapalli district. It also has a 1,500-year-old Sundareswarar Temple.
When Islam itself was created 200 years after the construction of the temple, how can waqf board claim that Temple is a waqf property along with the entire village..!!!

The real shocker came to the villagers when a local attempted to sell his agricultural land. The man named Rajagopal, was informed by the local authorities that his 1.2-acre plot of property belonged to the Tamil Nadu Waqf Board and that in order to sell it, he needed to get a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the board, according to a report by India Today.
The sub-office registrar also reportedly gave him a 20-page document claiming ownership of the land from the Tamil Nadu Waqf Board. Puzzled by this information concerning his own land, Rajagopal looked through his property paperwork but found no such claims.

Villagers who could not initially believe the claims soon after formed a queue outside the district administration's headquarters. There was no evidence regarding Muslims residing in the area, and papers proved that resettlement took place in 1927-1928. There was also no information about Muslims holding property in the area, the report further said.

However, the Waqf Board had written a 20-page letter to 12 registration offices in Trichy, claiming property in numerous districts.

An land and revenue official said that all of the lands in Thiruchendurai village belong to the Waqf Board, and anyone wishing to sell it must obtain a NOC from the board in Chennai.

8. Strange Property Claims Made by the Waqf Board

In 2021 locals in Kodavoor village in Udupi Taluk of Karnataka had managed to reverse an order that had 'granted' land where once stood a Jain Basadi to the waqf board. Through a government notification issued on 22 June 2021, the Department of Revenue had denotified the grant of land to the Waqf board and taken the same under its own administration.

Those representing the illegal structure have been claiming it is a mosque of the Tippu era, but there is enough evidence to prove that there once stood a Jain Basadi.

9. Strange Property Claims Made by the Waqf Board

The ancient Jain temple at Kodavooru (Kodavooru is a small town belonging to the temple city of Udupi in Karnataka) was taken over by the Waqf board in 2021.
The ancient Jain temple at Kodavooru was sacked and vandalised by Tipu Sultan more than 200 years ago, the Jain temple and its premises consisting of 67 cents of land was under government control till 14th Januray 2021.
A Muslim man is said to have started living at the premises by putting up a small tent some years back. Within a period of time, many more Muslims started occupying the temple land. Recently they started claiming ownership of the place, following which the Waqf Board staked claim to the property and claimed ownership to it formally.
The ancient historic Jain Temple and its 67 cent land property in Kodavuru which was under the Revenue department of Karnataka government has now been transferred to the Waqf Board.

10. Strange Property Claims Made by the Waqf Board

The Andhra Pradesh Waqf Board had claimed the ownership of 1,654.32 acres of Manikonda village and had said that the land belonged to Dargah Hazrat Hussain Shah Wali.
In 2022 The Supreme Court ruled the decades-old litigation regarding the Manikonda Jagir land in favour of the state government saying that ‘all the lands are held with the state government only’.
The final verdict pronounced by a division bench comprising Justice Hemnath Gupta and Justice V Ramasubramanian provided much-needed relief to several public and private institutes besides individual landowners. The lands in question are situated at Manikonda Jagir Village, Gandipet Mandal of Rangareddy district and value more than Rs 50,000 crore in market value.

11. Strange Property Claims Made by the Waqf Board
In 2022 Chattisgarh Waqf Board claimed the property rights on the land of hundreds of acres in Nayapara, Kaysthpara, Press Complex, Panchsheel Nagar, Local Tehseel office complex..!!!
When locals started an agitation against this strange claim of the Waqf board, govt officials downplayed the matter and promised to look into the matter with Waqf board...!!!
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12 Strange Property Claims Made by the Waqf Board
In southwest Delhi, a person decided to construct a house on his own land, but he got the shock of his life when he came to know that the plot, he considers his own, is actually a waqf property...!!!!
When plot owner contested the Waqf board claim and asked waqf board persons to show the ownership documents, they could not show anything and just went back..!!!!!

13. Strange Property Claims Made by the Waqf Board
The famous Gyanwapi case where it has been clearly proved that how a thousand of years old temple was destroyed and a mosque was constructed over it, clearly worked as a great reminder of Muslim takeover of Hindu temples and associated lands by using Waqf Board as a tool thanks to the Congress patronage of the minority of 20 crores for last 70 years..!!!

14. Strange Property Claims Made by the Waqf Board

The famous Idgaah ground in Bengaluru was claimed by the Waqf board but the administration shot down all such shenanigans...!!!

15. Strange Property Claims Made by the Waqf Board

Waqf board had claimed the ancient mound OF Lakshagriha Baghpat near Delhi, a historical site mentioned in the ancient epic Mahabharata, as a waqf property.
The dispute started in 1970 when one Mukim Khan then "muttawali" (caretaker) of the Muslim graveyard initiated legal proceedings to claim the entire 100 bigha land around the graveyard as waqf property and requested the court to stop Hindus from encroaching upon it.
After 53 years, in Feb 2024 court gave its decision in Favour of the local Hindu community who hold the site in great reverence as a place where Pandva'S LAKSHAGRIHA PALCE STOOD DURING THE TIMES OF THE MAHABHARATA.

16. The sheer audacity of the Waqf board is there for all to see when it did claim a historical site belonging to the Mahabharat era...!!!
Finally, it took the Hindu community of the Baghpat 53 years of the legal battle to reclaim what was already its own cultural heritage.
This is the gift Nehru, and his dynasty gave us...!!!

17. The summary of the Congress secularism is aptly reflected in the Waqf board patronized by the Congress since the days of the Nehru...!!!

18. Here is a wakeup call and a very clear message to all from Shri @AshwiniUpadhyay Ji
It's about time now
Wake all you secular sleeping Hindus\
Before the Waqf board knocks on your door
and tell you that your house is a waqf property...!!!

19. And here is a cold-blooded example of, how our politicians are destroying our Hindu culture and Sanatan values, and temples through the reckless religious appeasement of one community at the cost of the 100 crore Hindus of the Bharat.
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal has gifted more than 100 crores to the Delhi Waqf Board and increased the salary of the Imam to 18000 INR/ Month while that of the helpers to 16,000/ Month...!!!
Watch the video and see how he is exhorting the Muslim community for his selfish political gains.

20. An example of the appeasement by the Delhi Govt, year 2019 (though old but very relevant)
Mohd. Minhajuddin pelted stones on school buses, burnt public property & created mayhem in Jamia Nagar & adjacent areas on 14 Dec 2019. He was arrested by Delhi police.

Later on Kejriwal's AAP govt's minister Amanatullah khan who is part of Waqf Board has offered him a GOVT JOB & Rs 5 LAKH cash REWARD....!!!!

21. An example of the state patronage and demographic takeover
Kolkata mayor and TMC minister Firhad Hakim proudly announcing that one day half of the Bengal will speak Urdu...!!!

22. What happened at Haldwani is a stark and dark reminder of the things to come up in future if we Hindus do not wake up to stop the silent demographic takeover of our holy places, temples and Hindu majority areas in the rural India.
In Haldwani, allegedly motorcycles were pre-filled with full-tank petrol by Islamists so that they could use the petrol to make petrol bombs. Some reports suggest Islamists attempted to set female cops on fire.
All this for stopping a govt drive to remove an illegal building the govt land by the DARA HUA MINORITY COMMUNITY...!!!!

23. This video by @ambujbh from a slum of Rohingya s settled illegally in Haldwani, shows what the demographic invasion is and how it is funded by the institutions like Waqf board under the garb of the charity for the poor...!!!
Again, thanks to our politicians...!!

@ambujbh 24. It took us 500 years to reclaim our greatest heritage, that is Shri Ram Mandir.
If we do not learn from it, nothing can save us from becoming 8th grade citizens as @ARanganathan72 Sir said in his book.

@ambujbh @ARanganathan72 25. Be very very proud of your Sanatan Lineage which older than 10,000 years.

Sanatan is the light
Dharma is the path

Share this message with all
Let the light of Sanatan, wake up all sleeping Hindus

Radhe Radhe

Blessings from Shri Krishna

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27. They will stop you
They will subjugate you.
They will give you temptations.
They will try to kill you
They will try to demoralize you.

But
you don't need to stop.
till
we reclaim every single temple.
every single place of Sanatan's cultural heritage
That is the fight we all need to fight.