The district administration of Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh has urged 11 Muslim families to sign a consent letter to vacate the houses located in the Southeast area of Gorakhnath Math Temple. The families are now being forced to vacate the houses by the administration.
According to the govt authorities, the properties are being cleared mentioning the security of Gorakhnath Math Temple.
The letter in Hindi says, “To abide the order of district administration to deploy police force keeping in view the security at The Gorakhnath Temple, we are giving our land and signing this document with our will. We don’t have any objections. To express our consent, we are signing this document below.”
The area in the letter is enrolled as Village Old Gorakhpur Tappa, Town Pargna Haveli, Tehsil Sadar District Gorakhpur.
The Gorakhnath Math is spread over an area of 52 acres,the head of which is Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister himself.
The letter includes the names and signatures of the 11 proprietors dated 28th May.
As per a report published on The Cognate,Javed Akhter, a signatory of the consent letter said“We have signed the letter under the pressure of the administration and other people who are willing to give their land. We were forced to sign the circular.”
Akhter is a retired engineer in Railways of India and has spent his life in the same house. This property was registered under his father’s name and was transferred to him after his father left. Now he lives with his family in the house. The last two generations of his family spent their life on this land.
He further said, “The administration has made the security of the temple a reason to grab our property. We are residing here for more than a hundred years, how our existence and houses will be a threat to the security of the temple?”
“Two police stations are also there in the area to maintain law and order, how can anyone breach Temple’s security”, he added.
Akhter said, “We will pursue the matter legally if the administration will try to snatch our property illegally through power. We will not leave our ancestral land like this.