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Jammu and Kashmir Waqf Board chairperson Darakhshan Andrabi connected Friday (January 16, 2026) joined different Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders successful Kashmir successful defending the constabulary determination to illustration mosques successful the Valley.
“Verification of properties should not beryllium viewed with suspicion. Just arsenic onshore ownership successful a household requires due documents, spiritual properties similar mosques, shrines, and gurdwaras besides request verification. Imams, maulavis, and mosque committees request not to panic,” Ms. Andrabi said.
Stating that determination was nary governmental docket down the process of profiling mosques, Ms. Andrabi said, “When the Waqf Development Act was introduced and passed, it excessively was termed arsenic interference successful the spiritual affairs. There are a fewer radical who bash their authorities connected specified issues. The information is that J&K has emerged arsenic a starring Union Territory successful the registration of Waqf assets.”
“There is nary request to politicise mosques oregon mislead radical connected this issue,” she added.
BJP spokesperson Altaf Thakur said that for accountability and transparency of each institutions, surveillance and vigil was must. “Past acquisition tells america that mosques were utilized successful Kashmir by maulvis to inquire radical to travel retired and clasp pro-Pakistan rallies. Though it has been stopped successful 2019 but inactive immoderate elements usage mosque arsenic governmental level and for propaganda,” Mr. Thakur said.
He said determination was thing incorrect with uncovering retired who was backing the mosques, the quality of the onshore connected which a mosque was built and the ideology followed. “Wahabi ideology is the aforesaid arsenic ‘sar tan accidental juda’ ideology. We request to cognize what is taught successful these mosques. There should beryllium nary objection to it,” Mr. Thakur said.
The BJP person said mosques successful Kashmir were utilized successful the 1990s to play pro-Pakistan songs. “Pakistan utilized section molvis successful Kashmir successful the 1990s. Recently, a doctors’ panic module was busted and traced to a moulvi,” Mr. Thakur said, portion referring to the Red Fort blast successful November past year.
The BJP’s basal followed a connection by the Muttahida Majlis-e-Ulema (MMU), a conglomerate of Islamic spiritual organisations successful Jammu and Kashmir, which described the constabulary profiling arsenic “intrusive”.
According to the MMU, the constabulary were distributing multi-page forms and sought details, including backstage recognition details, household particulars, fiscal information, telephone details, integer and societal media profiles, passport details, question history, and adjacent telephone IMEI details and different idiosyncratic information of each those connected with the moving and absorption of mosques.
The profiling of mosques was opposed by the ruling National Conference, the Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), J&K Peoples Conference, and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) successful Kashmir.
