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Poet suggests hospital on Ayodhya land, offers his land for mosque

The 69-year-old poet, who had returned his Sahitya Akademi award for Urdu in 2015 over the intolerance issue, has also asked the Prime Minister for a new Muslim Waqf Board for protection of Waqf properties

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Pic courtesy/Munawwar Rana's Twitter account

Pic courtesy/Munawwar Rana's Twitter account

Well-known Urdu poet Munawwar Rana has sent a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing his willingness to donate his ancestral 5.5-acre land next to river Sai in Rae Bareli, for construction of a grand mosque.

The poet has said that the five-acre land in Dhannipur village sanctioned by the government in lieu of Babri Masjid, should be used for building a hospital in the name of King Dashrath, the father of Lord Ram.

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