If the term ‘secular’ that the Constitution of Bharat contains, why there be the question of the provision of the term like ‘minority’ in that . In the article 299 of the draft of Constituent Assembly it was once mentioned there the rights of minority, but not the term like ‘secular’.
After the partition of the country when the Muslims got Pakistan for themselves article 299 was abolished, and the term ‘secular’ added there of in the Constitution. As Sardar Ballabh Bhai Patel then said that when the Muslim as a community so well-knit that they have so much power to bring about partition of the country in face of all the counter resistance, how could they be treated as deprived or a weaker section of a community needing the benefits as a minority from the State. Now, thereby, the question like the provision of minority right to them gets to be null and void.
It is therefore question persists as how could that the Waqf Board be granted the status of a government body just for the religious activities of a community ? And, why should the government bear the expenditure of whatever that the Waqf do, paying nothing in return from the revenue it generates from the properties spread all over the country ? Is there any such Board constituted for Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus or any religious community by secular dispensation of the country?
It’s because of this discriminatory provision that a 1500 years Hindu temple in Tamil Nadu has been declared the property of Waqf property . And the Hindu caretakers of the temple are not even informed prior to the action. Now they are hanging about here and there with their document, and now being told to go to challenge the development in Waqf Tribunal . Notably, so happened when in Tamil Nadu Muslim community had reached not before 700-800 years back.
Now the Hindus of the country want to know as to how 1500 years old place of their temple could get to have become the property of the Muslims !
However, this is not an isolated case of its kind. Gurdwara built in 1947 in Yamuna nagar was likewise declared by Waqf board to have come up in its land. The Court also gave the decision in favour of Waqf Board. When the situation went out of control the local administration made the provision of a separate land to be allotted for mosque.
