Hindu Groups Approach BBMP To Use Idgah Maidan, Say It Is Public Property

After Jamia Masjid in Srirangapatna, Malali Masjid in Dakshina Kannada, and Peer Shah Dargah in Bidar, Karnataka is seeing another row loom large over another site the Idgah Maidan in Bengaluru. Though the state was passing through a phase of communal tension following the hijab row and a series of related events, the capital city, known as the IT and BT hub of the country, had remained immune to all these.
However, now Hindu organisations have taken objection over the Idgah Maidan in Chamrajpet area being treated as the property of minorities and decided to celebrate Independence Day on August 15 in the grounds and hoist the tricolour. They have also taken a decision to celebrate Yoga Day on June 21 on the grounds. Hindu activist Pathapat Srinivas on Thursday said that Hindu leaders are meeting Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai with a request to hoist the tiranga (tricolour) and celebrate the Yoga Day there.
Congress MLA from Chamaraj Pet, Zameer Ahmad Khan, has been repeatedly making speeches that he would get the biggest masjid in Bengaluru constructed in 2.5 acres of Idgah Maidan. There are plans of putting Leader of Opposition Siddaramaiah to contest elections from Chamrajpet, he said. Srinivas also claimed that the Supreme Court judgment in connection with the Idgah Maidan was “tampered with”.
There are corrections and no short signatures are found in the order. There will be mention of the number of corrections, which are not found, he said. The Bengaluru civic agency had not contested the claims of the opposite party in the Supreme Court, which upheld the injunction order of the High Court not allowing constructions in Idgah Maidan by the civic agency, he added. We will demand from CM Bommai that Idgah Maidan should be preserved as a public property and cultural activities of all religions must be permitted, Srinivas said.