With the Muslim fraternity protesting the reported plan to “remove” the Hazarath Syed Ali Hussain Shahkhadari Dargah to make way for the Kankadurga Flyover, District Collector B. Lakshmikantham on Wednesday said the religious structure would remain untouched.
He said the the project executors and the Roads & Buildings department officials had issued an assurance long ago.
After the barricades separating the national highway and the dargah parallel to the flyover path were removed on Wednesday, the caretakers and the Muslim religious heads warned of intense protests if any attempts were made to demolish it by breaking promises made by the government earlier.
G. John Moshae, R&B superintending engineer and in-charge of the flyover project, said all precautions were being taken to keep the dargah from any damage. “As erection of spines and wings for the pillars including and in between 36 and 39, the barricading adjacent to the dargah was removed. Once the work is finished it will be rebuilt,” he said. K. Srinivas, MP, who was in New Delhi, also said no damage would be caused to it.
