As many as 10 Muslim MPs stands against the State government’s decision to permit attorney general of India to fight the Manikonda Jagir Case against the AP State Wakf Board.
According to a Times report published in 25th December addition, the MP’s urged Prime Minister in a joint letter to intervene in the matter and informed him that the state government move is against the spirit of Wakf Act 1995.
The MP’s further suggested the Prime Minister to release the Wakf Land of Manikonda in favour of Dargah Hazrath Hussain Shah Wali in consonance with Mutaqab of 1935, judgment of Nazim-e-Atiyat of May 5, 1957 and the verdict of AP High Court of 1959.
Quoting the memo of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the MPs mentioned that she has wrote a memo to all Chief Ministers stating that litigations in wakf matters were not desirable and should be settled on administrative basis and she had also said that such disputes should be resolved quickly and the properties should be handed over to the concerned wakf.
The MPs also cited another example of Andhra Pradesh about the joint parliamentary committee on wakf which had recommended in its 2008 report to the Rajya Sabha that the AP government should release the open land in Manikonda to the Dargah Hazrath Hussain Shah Wali.
This property was alloted to congress Mp Lanco Rajgopal company .Except for Hyderabad mp all the signatory Mps belong to other states .
The 10 MPs who signed the letter includes Mr. Ali Anwar Ansari, Hussain Dalwai, Mohammed Shafi, Mohammed Salim Ansari, Shariq Shareefuddin, Shafiur Rahman Barq, Abdul Sayeed Malihabadi, Mohammed Adeeb, Sabir Ali and M Adbur Rahman.