KOLKATA: Reacting to the development that 50 per cent of the Waqf Estate in the state has been registered in the Centre's portal by the state Waqf Development Board, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said she will not allow any impact on any religious place.
While indirectly trying to establish that registration was necessary as per the new Waqf (Amendment) Act, a central law, she also claimed that in West Bengal, she would not allow anyone to put their hands on anybody else's property.
"It was not us but the BJP-ruled Union Government which had promulgated the new Waqf Act. We have passed a motion in the assembly against it. We have also moved the Supreme Court against that Act. The case is on. But, I want to say we will not allow anyone to put their hands on anybody else's property. I will not allow any impact on any religious place, " the Chief Minister said while addressing an anti-Special Intensive Revision (SIR) rally at Gazole in minority-dominated Malda district.
Speaking on the occasion, she said Union Home Minister Amit Shah initiated the SIR.