Overview
- The Telangana government issued a GO allocating 2,500 square yards near Ghairabad Masjid in Shaikpet for a Muslim graveyard, but Army officials stopped work, asserting the land belongs to defence establishments.
- As an alternative, a parcel in Erragadda drew street protests from residents of nearby gated communities, with police preventing demonstrators from entering the site.
- BJP MP M. Raghunandan Rao joined the Erragadda protest, alleging vote‑bank politics, claiming the land is private with court orders, and warning of intensified agitation if the plan is not withdrawn.
- Congress minority leaders said encroachments at Erragadda were cleared to hand over the land for burial use, while former State Minorities Commission chair Abid Rasool Khan called the process mishandled and questioned the authority behind a related Waqf order.
- Community members continue to press for a larger, permanent cemetery site, including suggestions at Guttala Begumpet, as BRS leader K. T. Rama Rao contrasts the dispute with his party’s claimed 2022 allocation of 125 acres each for Muslim and Christian cemeteries.