Anantkumar alleges ‘Land Jihad’

Belagavi: Union minister of state for skill development and entrepreneurship Anantkumar Hegde on Monday alleged that a large number of

Muslims

are buying land and houses in

Hindu

localities in a bid to gradually vacate people from the majority community. Citing

Khadak Galli

, a communally sensitive area in

Belagavi

, as an example, the minister termed the ploy ‘Land Jihad’.

Addressing BJP booth-level workers here, Hegde said that he’s making efforts to set up offices of the National Investigation Agency in Belagavi and

Mangaluru

to prevent

communal violence

in these two cities.