n Mulayam’s Etawah, Muslims bury dead at home, on Road Afzal Khan To AMUNetworkAligarh ForumAMU Alumni and 4 More... Oct 29 at 3:30 PM Posted BY Posted BY Afzal Ahmadct Khan Lucknow, India In Mulayam’s Etawah, Muslims bury dead at home, on Road Faisal Fareed : Chakarnagar( Etawah), Mon Oct 28 2013, 04:12 hrs Lucknow, India static.indianexpress/m-images/Mon%20Oct%2028%202013,%2004:12%20hrs/M_Id_433697_..jpg A grave inside a home in Chakarnagar village, Etawah The Samajwadi Party (SP) government pats itself on the back for allocating crores of rupees for construction of boundary walls of graveyards across the state. In party chief Mulayam Singh Yadavs home district Etawah though, Muslims could do with some graveyard space. Despite repeated requests, land has not been allotted to them for a graveyard, forcing the community to bury their dead inside their homes — in bedrooms, courtyards, even toilets. In Takia locality in Chakarnagar village, nearly 35 km from Etawah, where nearly all Muslim residents are landless labourers, there are graves inside every community members home. Children play on them even as elders avoid stepping on them as a mark of respect. Etawah DM P Guru Prasad says they are aware of the problem. We have identified land in Chandai village which is 2 km away. But they are not accepting it, he says. There are three graves inside the one-room house of Sullah Ahmed of Takia. My mother, a brother and grandfather are buried there, Ahmed says. Two more graves are located on a three-foot plank outside his room. What he is most ashamed about is that he had to bury his wife on the road outside. I cannot give her decent life even after death, Ahmed sighs. Earlier there were hardly six houses of Muslims in Chakarnagar. As Mukhtiyar Ali points out, There was open space. But now there are nearly 250 people living here. My children sometimes start crying at night because they know they are sleeping on their mothers grave, laments Alam Khan. We told our problem during elections to political leaders. They promised us land for graveyard, but nothing has materialised. Ahmed says they even met Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav once. To get around the problem, people have already shifted to making temporary graves. These can be levelled later.
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