All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi trained guns on Madhya Pradesh's Bharatiya Janata Party government over the transfer of Vidisha DM. The Hyderabad MP alleged that the official was transferred because he obeyed the law in the Bijamandal case.
On Sunday, the MP government issued transfer orders for several IAS officers in the state including Vidisha District Magistrate, Buddesh Kumar Vaidya (2014), replaced by Roshan Kumar Singh (2015), reported PTI.
Taking to social media platform X, Owaisi alleged that the collector was transferred because he turned down a request by Sangh outfits to pray in a mosque, in accordance with the law.
"In Madhya Pradesh, Sangh outfits demanded that they should be allowed to pray in a mosque. The District Collector noted that the structure was a mosque in ASI gazette & refused permission," said the Hyderabad MP in his X post.
"The collector was transferred because he followed the law," he alleged.
Owaisi also flagged the "danger" of the Wakf Amendment Bill, alleging that the government wants to "give expansive powers to the collector."
"If someone says that a masjid is not a masjid; the collector must follow the mob’s demands or s/he’ll be transferred. No amount of evidence will be sufficient," he said.
A group of Hindus had recently submitted a memorandum to Vidisha DM seeking to open the 11th-century Bijamandal site in the city for prayers on the occasion of the Nagpanchami festival.
The District Magistrate sent the petition to the Archaeological Survey of India, which on August 2 cited a Gazette notification of 1951 stating that Bijamandal was not a temple but a mosque, as per the report.