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Plea to make Wakf Board a commissionerate

Special Correspondent

`Insaf' wants the body to be endowed with magisterial powers

HYDERABAD: `Insaf', a State-level organisation formed by the CPI to highlight problems of Muslim community, has demanded that the Government take steps to make the Wakf Board a commissionerate.

Speaking to reporterson Sunday, `Insaf' vice-president and MP Azeez Pasha and CPI spokesman Shameem Faizee said the Wakf Board was unable to evict the encroachers from Wakf properties under the present circumstances. Once endowed with magisterial powers, it would be in a position to clear encroachment on the properties worth more than Rs. 40,000 crores in different parts of the State. On the five per cent reservations to Muslims, Mr. Faizee said the CPI that was against reservations on the basis of religion, however, did not oppose the move by the State Government as Muslims who had been discriminated against in education and employment needed the measure here. Though the UPA Government had constituted a ministry for minority affairs, the Ministry itself was creating hurdles in their development .

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