Ambani’s Home is Allegedly a Waqf Property, Kejriwal Claims in a Viral Video

GG News Bureau

New Delhi, 27^th Sept. The Waqf Board appears to have unrestricted authority to assert property claims on behalf of Muslim charitable causes. Turning the pages of history is necessary to comprehend how it managed to get this right.

How was it possible to apply a religious law like the Waqf Act in a secular nation like India? Why aren’t there similar laws for Christians, Sikhs, or Hindus? Why just Muslims? Consider the irony of the 1991 Places of Worship Act, which states that religious facilities that existed at the time the nation gained its independence will be preserved in their current condition. Affected parties cannot even file an appeal in any national court against the Waqf Act, which took effect simultaneously in 1995 and grants the Waqf Board nationwide the right to assert its rights on any property.

It is odd to learn that such an act occurs in a secular nation while it does not occur in any Muslim nation. Both a Waqf Board and a Waqf Law are absent in Muslim nations like Turkey, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq. Waqf Act ought to have no place in India as well. The Waqf Act should be repealed by the government because it is obviously unconstitutional.

Recently, Arvind Kejriwal, the Chief Minister of Delhi, is seen in a video claiming that Mukesh Ambani’s mansion was constructed on Waqf land. Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga, national secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, posted the video on Twitter.

In the video, Kejriwal is heard speaking to a crowd and declaring, “It is rumoured that the richest person in this country’s residence, which is located in Mumbai, was built on a waqf property. I can’t possibly be wrong, can I? There is nothing the Mumbai government can do to change that. If it had been our government, we would have destroyed the building.

अम्बानी का घर भी वक़्फ़ बोर्ड की प्रॉपर्टी हैं , हमारी सरकार होती अम्बानी का घर तुड़वा देती । pic.twitter.com/BO3sWVnZ4C

— Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga (@TajinderBagga) September 27, 2022

Arvind Kejriwal further asserted in the video that the Aam Aadmi Party is totally behind the Waqf Board and will stand by the Board wherever it needs assistance. The video has received a lot of attention, and Kejriwal has come under fire for his comments from internet users.

The actual video was shot in 2019, when Kejriwal attended a Waqf Board conference at Aiwan-E-Ghalib in Delhi. In his speech at the event, Arvind Kejriwal asserted that the Delhi Government would pay for the building of schools and hospitals on land owned by the Waqf Board. Amanatullah Khan, an AAP MLA who was recently detained by the Anti-Corruption Bureau in connection with a corruption case involving the Waqf Board, also attended the conference.

Fact check of Ambani’s disputed property

Arvind Kejriwal asserted that the Waqf Board will become so wealthy in the future that it won’t need any money from any other authority while speaking at the conference. Before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the event took place. A pay raise for Delhi’s imams and muezzins was approved by Kejriwal a few days after the meeting. The AAP president announced that the salaries of muezzins and imams at the 185 mosques in the nation’s capital that are overseen by the Delhi Waqf Board would be increased from Rs 9,000 to Rs 16,000 per month, respectively.

It appears that Arvind Kejriwal was mistaken when he claimed that Mukesh Ambani, the Chairman of the Reliance Group, had his home built on Waqf land. The Currimbhoy Ebrahim Khoja Orphanage Trust previously ran an orphanage on a 4,500-square-meter plot of land to provide maintenance and education to underprivileged and abandoned children. In August of 2002, the Charity Commissioner granted the trust’s request for permission to sell the land to Antilia Commercial Pvt Ltd (APCL).

Sources claim that the Maharashtra State Waqf Board ruled in November 2017 that the sale of the land, which took place between 2004 and 2005, was illegal because it was Waqf property. In the interim and afterward, the Bombay High Court received numerous lawsuits. The State Waqf Board later that month, in November 2017, submitted an affidavit. The land transfer was illegal because it belonged to the Waqf, according to the CEO of the Waqf Board, who stated this in the affidavit.

According to the ACPL and the Trust, Waqf had no responsibility after the Charity Commissioner issued the authorization because the land was under the Charity Commissioner’s jurisdiction, not Waqf’s

The Waqf Board CEO, however, sent a notice to both parties after becoming aware of the transaction, which the orphanage Trust contested. Later, the trust and the Board decided to settle the conflict amicably, and on March 9, 2005, the Board adopted a resolution approving the deal.

Why has the Waqf board suddenly arrived to claim their properties after all this time? They are claiming a lot of properties all over the nation. Is there a plot to take over Hindus’ property and convert Bharat a Muslim nation?