From one pocket to another - Wah Taj!

The Taj Mahal was today declared Sunni Wakf property on the ground that it is the grave of a woman whose emperor husband was a Sunni.

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), the monument’s custodian since 1920 has at least said that it would challenge the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Wakf Board’s verdict in the high court.

I remember the old story about owner trying to slaughter the hen that laid golden eggs but only once a day!

The ASI earns Rs 15 crore a year in Taj revenues; and I wonder if it even spends Rs 1.05 crore. on it's maintenance and upkeep. It's a Jizya that Shahjhan left for Govt. of India to be repaid for a hundred years though he never took it anyways.

The Taj will now be “like a house owned by two warring brothers, no one keen on its proper maintenance”, said the assistant director of ASI, Agra, S.K. Sharma. “The order is not against the ASI, it is against the Taj Mahal.”

I agree.

Sunni Wakf Board. Corrupted to the core. Revelling and eating out on the money left by those who crossed the borders during partition or those who leave a sare of their property to be devoted to social charitable causes of uplifting poor amongst the Muslims. Their pockets are so fill..I wonder where they intend to keep the money they would recieve out of owning the Taj. Taj would be very fortunate if would survive another 50 years if it gets into Wakf hands from ASI. At least, ASI did undertake some maintenance work on it occasionally.

No limit to WAKF greediness I must say!! One look at the delipidated conditions of most of the mosques that are already under Wakf jurisdiction in India, and one could imagine the fate of the Taj in near future.