The name of the Waqf Board was inserted overnight in the revenue records of Vijayapura district, where farmers were asked to vacate their ancestral lands, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said on Monday. Moreover, the name of the Waqf Board has been inserted in the land record of 44 properties in Vijayapura in the last three weeks, said Amit Malviya, head of the BJP’s IT cell.

The Karnataka State Waqfs Board has claimed ownership of the farmers’ land in Vijayapura. Farmers of Honvada village said they received a letter from Tehsildar on October 4, stating that 1,500 acres of their ancestral lands were being reallocated to the Waqf Board.

Karnataka Cabinet Minister MB Patil said the confusion over the Waqf Board’s claims was due to an error in the official gazette. Patil, who is the minister in charge of Vijayapura district, said only 11 acres out of the 1,200 acres are owned by the waqf. This includes a cemetery covering 10 acres and 14 guntas, with an idgah, mosque and other structures on the remaining 24 guntas. “All other land belongs to the farmers as confirmed by the local Tahsildar and district commissioner,” he said in a press conference.

However, Malviya today said that the name of the Waqf Board was inserted in the revenue records in Vijayapura overnight and the RTC (Record of Rights, Tenancy and Crops) mutation was done to include the Waqf. “In several cases, land records were changed without prior notice to farmers. Farmers in Indi Taluk were left shocked,” he said in a tweet.

“No notice, no hearing, Waqf Board’s name comes in column no. 11 of RTC just two days after Karnataka Minority Affairs Minister Zameer Ahmed Khan’s meeting with officials,” he said. -he said, adding that the RTC belonging to 41 properties in Indi Taluk and 3 in Chadachan Taluk has been amended to mention the name of Waqf Board.

“This apart, 433 farmers (received) notices in the last 3 weeks related to the 124 survey numbers in Vijayapura district.” Malviya said that after an argument, the Congress government asked Deputy Commissioner Abid Gadyal to check the mutations made in the RTC in favor of the Waqf Board and seek registrations from farmers.

Earlier this month, farmers received notices from the Karnataka Waqf Board asking them to vacate what they call their ancestral lands. The farmers staged a protest at the deputy commissioner’s office in Vijayapura, the district headquarters in north Karnataka, bordering Maharashtra.

Holding the land records and registered land titles, the farmers claimed they received a notice soon after Housing and Waqf Minister BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan’s visit to Vijayapura and ordered the deputy commissioner to serve notices to the farmers who were on Waqf land.

The farmer leaders alleged that without bringing the matter to their notice, the land records of farmers of Tenahalli village in Indi Taluk and Honvada village in Tikota Taluk were changed and made in favor of the Waqf.

Tejasvi Surya, BJP MP from Bengaluru South, said farmers of Honvada village in Tikota Taluk received notices declaring their lands as Waqf property “without any proof or explanation provided”.

MB Patil, Minister of Commerce and Industry, denied that the agricultural land was registered as Waqf land. Surya responded to him by sharing the income statements on It also clearly mentions that the said changes were made as per DC’s instructions.
Clearly, the tax authorities are listening to Mr Zameer Ahmed and not Mr Patil. »