Congress’ land allotment to Dawat-e-Islami in Chhattisgarh: All you have to know

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On January 2, Chattisgarh state BJP chief and ex-minister Brijmohan Agrawal levelled critical allegations towards the Congress-led Chhattisgarh authorities over the allotment of 25-acre land to Pakistani extremist outfit Dawat-e-Islami. After a large outrage towards the transfer by the BJP, the allotment of the 25-acre land in Raipur has been cancelled by the state authorities.

Earlier, the Bhupesh Baghel-led Congress authorities in Chhattisgarh had determined to allot 25-acre land to the Pakistan-linked extremist Islamic organisation Dawat-e-Islami. The outfit’s Chattisgarh wing had requested the federal government to allot 10 hectares(25 acres) of land within the Boriakhurd space of Raipur to assemble a group centre. After the first allotment, the extra collector on the district court docket had issued an commercial for claiming objection towards the allotment. In the commercial dated December 22, 2021, respondents have been requested to file objections in court docket earlier than January 13, 2022.

Screengrab of the commercial as tweeted by BJP chief Brijmohan Agrawal

Following the event, the state BJP unit led a large uproar over the allotment of an enormous piece of land to an Islamist Organisation with Pakistani hyperlinks. Brijmohan Agrawal, ex-Cabinet minister within the state authorities tweeted, “The Chhattisgarh government is allotting 25 acres (10 hectares) of land in Raipur to an organization named Dawat-e Islami. Dawat-e-Islami is a Pakistani organization, and Congress is enabling them to open their branches in our country”

छत्तीसगढ़ सरकार रायपुर में दावते इस्लामी नाम के संगठन को 25 एकड़ (10 हेक्टेयर) जगह आवंटित कर रही है। दावते इस्लामी एक पाकिस्तानी संगठन है, जिसकी शाखाएं हमारे देश में खोलने का काम यह कांग्रेसी कर रहे हैं। दावते इस्लामी के ऊपर मतांतरण और आतंकवाद फैलाने व चंदे के जरिए फंडिंग के(1/4) pic.twitter.com/BxyqaFSKuB— Brijmohan Agrawal (@brijmohan_ag) January 2, 2022

Agrawal alleged that a number of allegations have been made towards Daawat-e-Islami over compelled conversions, influencing voters and spreading terrorism by way of donations. Their members have been earlier recognized as terrorists and spies who’ve been caught by the particular cell of the Delhi Police. He famous that the Facebook web page of Dawat-e-Islami has pictures of its Pakistani founder Ilyas Qadri and that the logos of The authentic Pakistani organisation and its Chhattisgarh wing are additionally related.

He questioned, “The government has gone ahead to donate 10 lakh,76 thousand square feet space to a Pakistani organisation for building a community centre. Has any community in history been allotted such a large space for building a community hall? Does it take 25 acres to build a community hall?”

12 acre govt owned land in Raipur Chhattisgarh allotted to Dawat-e-Islami, a Karachi based mostly organisation.Application given on twenty eighth December, accredited identical day by minister Mohammad Akbar and allotted the very subsequent day, twenty ninth December by Raipur DM.Amazing pace! pic.twitter.com/kfmFOW2MCJ— Rahul Kaushik (@kaushkrahul) January 3, 2022

Following the controversy, the Govt. cancelled the allotment and in defence mentioned Dawat-e-Islami’s request was declined within the first place. The Government has additionally arrange an enquiry towards the officers who had initially handed the allotment. Devendra Patel, Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM), Raipur mentioned that the applying was made by a person named Syed Kalim within the collector’s workplace on behalf of the organisation.

He said, “As per the preliminary process, on receipt of the application, a memorandum was issued by the Additional Tahsildar for publishing an advertisement. After the publication of the advertisement, the applicant appeared in the court of the Additional Tehsildar and withdrew his application saying that he had mistakenly written the area as 10 hectares, whereas he needed only 10,000 square feet.”

Finally, the SDM said that the applying within the Tehsil has been dismissed on 01 January 2022 and the case has been lastly closed. He assured that discover is being served to the Officer-in-Charge of Land Allotment (Collectorate) and the Additional Tehsildar for errors within the publication of the commercial.

Daawat-e-Islami and its hyperlinks with Pakistan

Founded in 1981 by Maulana Abu Bilal Muhammad Ilyas Attari, Dawat-e-Islami (Invitation to Islam), is a Sunni Islamic organisation with its base in Pakistan. The extremist organisation has unfold its wings in India and is lively in lots of international locations on the planet. Started as a revivalist organisation impressed by Sufi doctrines, it has developed into an extremist Islamist outfit with brazen terror hyperlinks. While it claims to be concerned in social work, its actions have been lengthy curtailed by Pakistani army authorities after the murderer of a Pakistani politician was discovered to be a DIE member. Recently in 2020, one of many terrorists who have been concerned within the Charlie Hebdo assault in Paris named DIE founder Ilyas Attari as his information.

A Pakistani terrorist named Md Ashraf, who was arrested in Delhi in October 2021 was additionally discovered to be linked with this organisation.

The Facebook web page of Dawat-e-Islami Chhattisgarh might be seen heaping praises for its Pakistani founder Ilyas Attar. Raipur Mayor Ejaz Debhar can also be seen praising the actions of the organisation in a video. In India, Dawat-e-Islami has garnered criticism from different Muslim sects over their open hyperlinks with terrorism. Voices have been raised earlier towards the targets of Dawat-e-Islami to carry non secular congregations (Iztema) in Kanpur and Hyderabad.