The reports about the demolitions of mosques one after another at different locations have raised many eyebrows among the Muslim community in the state and the questions are being raised about Chief Minister KCR’s Muslim friendly image ever since the new state came into existence.
Following the demolitions of two Secretariat Mosques, which were demolished recently in the name of rebuilding the center of governance, another similar deplorable incident came to light wherein a Masjid of Qutub Shahi era was raised to the ground at Jillalguda, under Balapur Mandal of Rangareddy District.
According to the reports the Qutub Shahi mosque, which was demolished unabashedly, is a notified Wakf land surrounded with several graves that reminds that the place was in use as a Muslim graveyard for decades.
Seizing the opportunity, the opposition parties especially the Congress has started firing salvos against the KCR’s government pointing towards the way it is functioning in the state hurting the sentiments of religious minorities and muzzling people’s voices.
Leaving no stone unturned to target the government with the emergence of incidents like desecration of religious structures especially belongs to Muslims in the state, the congress party is trying its best to corner the KCR’s government by taking the issue in the public more vigorously.
After the flabbergasted incident came to light two days ago, a Congress leader Osman Mohammed Khan, a famous face among others spearheading the one million signature campaign against the demolitions of mosques at the state secretariat, visited the spot and found the Qutub Shahi mosque trampled over the ground in Balapur Mandal.
Later talking to media persons he said, “A mosque of a Qutub Shahi era, surrounded with a graveyard at Jillalguda, under Balapur Mandal has been raised to the ground. The one acres 28 guntas of land, on which the mosque was built several decades ago surrounded with the number of graves, is notified in a Wakf Gazatte. Having no compound wall, the graveyard is reeling under a completely neglected state with a vulnerability of encroachments.”
“Several graves, he said, were overrun by pouring construction dismantle but relics of few of them are remain existing giving the accounts of efforts to encroach the land by the vested interests. “They tried their best to obscure the graves and are still doing so to cease the identity of the age-old Muslim cemetery. All this going on under the nose of government agencies and the officials are well acquainted with the encroachments on the land of Muslim graveyards,” blamed Osman.
“Some leaders play politics over the issue of Babri masjid, which locates around 1525 kilometers away from Hyderabad while turning a blind eye towards the mosques being trampled every now and then here in our own city,” he bemoaned.
Claiming that five mosques demolitions so far under the present rule, he said, the fresh case of desecration of Qutub Shahi Mosque at Balapur is the sixth incident that explains more about the true intension of the KCR’s government.
Supporting his claim with factual reports, Osman Khan explained that, “One mosque at Khammam, One mosque, and an Aashoor Khana at Amberpet, One Aashoor Khana at Narayanpet, One Qutub Shahi Masjid at Durgamcheru and Two other at secretariat has been demolished so far.”
Giving a clarion call to Muslim youngsters, he urges them to hit the roads against the trampling of Wakf properties by the government agencies as well as land sharks instead of playing all the time on Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp sitting in their houses.
Mohammed. Mateen Shareef, Mohd. Qamar and other activists were also presented at the occasion.
