Anwar Manippadi urges the Karnataka government to alleviate sufferings of the Muslim community

Muslim brethren tell him of ill treatment, harassment and threats by the government, he says

BJP leader and former Chairman of Karnataka State Minorities Commission and Minorities Development Corporation Anwar Manippadi has urged the government to alleviate the sufferings of Muslim minority community in Karnataka saying they were being ill-treated.

In a letter to Chief Minister Basavaraja Bommai on November 26, Mr. Manippadi said, “It is so disheartening to see our Government run by a party supposed to be a party with a difference - BJP and having trust and hope in our beloved Prime Minister Modi Ji’s concept of ‘Sab Ka Saath Sab Ka Vikas’ which here in Karnataka is not being practiced. It is so paining to know suffering of Muslims in Karnataka. I meet my Muslim Brethren and they complain that BJP run Government is ill-treating, harassing and threatening with dire consequences even if our action were legitimate and legally binding.”

Giving a few examples, Mr. Manippadi said the Muslim community in Doddanagamangala village in Bengaluru South taluk was unable to get a burial ground despite a court order in 2005. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Muslims had to take dead bodies to far-off places incurring huge expenditure to bury bodies, he said. There was no Muslim burial ground in the village and up to 6-7 km in surrounding areas.