On 3rd October, PM Modi, while addressing a rally in Telangana’s Nizamabad remarked that the state government had captured the temples and that the temples were being looted through a conspiracy involving governments.
Smriti Irani said, "NAWADCO is the only Section 25 company in the country that has been given the mandate to take money, especially from the taxpayers, to help maintain, develop, and economically resuscitate private waqf properties."
The tenancy had been declared unlawful in 2005, he noted, but the matter was left open until the amendment mandating criminal prosecution took effect, at which point the Kerala State Waqf Board used the 'draconian' act against the petitioner(s).