Trust set up to build mosque in Ayodhya
Five acres allotted 25 km from Babri Masjid site; no construction timeline yet
The Trust to build a mosque
in Ayodhya, following the
verdict of the Supreme Court
in the Babri MasjidRam Janmabhoomi title suit, would
have a maximum of 15 members, the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board announced on Wednesday as it
constituted the body.
Nine trustees announced
The Trust will be called the
IndoIslamic Cultural Foundation, Board chairperson
Zufar Faruqi said. Nine trustees have been announced,
while it will “coopt” the remaining six, the Board said.
Four out of the nine trustees
are affiliated to the Board, a
source said.
The Board, through its
CEO, will be the foundertrustee of the Trust, while Mr. Faruqi will be the chief trustee
or president. Adnan Farrukh
Shah of Gorakhpur will be
vicepresident, Athar Hussain of Lucknow secretary,
and Faez Aftab of Meerut the
treasurer.
The Trust has also named
four members — Imran Ahmad, Mohammad Junaid Siddiqui and Mohammad Rashid
of Lucknow, and Sheikh Saiduzzaman of Banda.
On February 24, the Uttar
Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf
Board decided to accept the
five acres of land allotted to it
by the State government for
building a mosque in Dhannipur village in Sohawal tehsil
of Ayodhya, around 25 km
from the site where the Babri
Masjid stood.
Mr. Faruqi had also announced that the Trust
would construct a centre
showcasing IndoIslamic culture of several centuries, a
centre for research and study
of IndoIslamic culture, a
charitable hospital, a public
library and other public utilities at the site in Dhannipur.
Trust spokesperson Mr.
Hussain told The Hindu that
there was no timeline yet on
when the blueprint and deadline on the construction of the mosque would be revealed. “We have not met
across the table as yet,” he
said, citing delays in the formation of the Trust and possession of land in Dhannipur
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