Tamil Nadu CM, MK Stalin, Announces To Increase The Funds To Repair The Mosques To 10 Crore
By Syed
Ali Mujtaba, New Age Islam
16 January
2023
Chennai
January 14: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has announced enhancing the
subsidy for mosques under the Major Repair Grant (MRG) to Rs 10 crore. Last
year the DMK government provided the same subsidy of Rs 6 crore. The previous
AIADMK regime had given the MGR to the tune of Rs 5 crore.
The Tamil
Nadu Chief Minister made the announcement following a demand from Manithaneya
Makkal Katchi leader and Papanasam MLA M.H. Jawahirullah.
Welcoming
the announcement made by the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, the MMK leader M.H.
Jawahirullah said that the MRG was Rs 5 crore during the previous AIADMK
government and it was increased to Rs 6 crore last year after the DMK came to
power, and now he is glad to hear that now it is further increased to Rs 10
crore.
While
making the announcement about MRG, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin also spoke about
seeds of communalism being sown in the state. He said his government will never
allow communal, racist, and extremist forces to grow in Tamil Nadu, and the
State will remain violence-free.
Mr. Stalin
said ‘a group’ was spreading rumours that the current government was
rationalist and anti-religion, and was not maintaining temples properly. He
said his government was only against communalism and not religion per se.
Tamil Nadu
Chief Minister reiterated his government was not against believers, but against
those who use people’s religious faith for their personal gains. In the period
since the government came to power till October 31, 2022, it has recovered
3,150 acres of encroached land worth ₹3,657.48 crores belonging to temples and
charities, he pointed out.
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Syed Ali
Mujtaba is a journalist based in Chennai.
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