Vadodara

Wider highway with good service road or a small-time dargah where believers offer clocks when their wishes are fulfilled? What’s more important? Common sense suggests, good highway is of course more important, but then the actual decision will be taken by a court in Vadodara where this matter has landed.

In the course of widening work of national highway no. 8 connecting Ahmedabad to Vadodara, National Highway Authority of India(NHAI) has on 2nd February issued notice to Hazart Balapir dargah(Ghadiyali baba)for its demolition on existing location. A Hindu priest of this dargah has challenged this notice in court.

Rayka,Vadodara based Manoj Haribhai Patel has challenged NHAI notice through his lawyers I.U. Patel and M.I. Patel. Patel claims that dargah is 150 years old. It is located on one-side of highway where widening work is proposed to take place. Devotees of all religions offer clocks when their wishes are fulfilled in this dargah. Such clocks are later donated to nearby rural schools. Patel says while temple and mosque can be relocated, dargah is altogether a different case because someone is buried exactly at that place.

A decision on this matter will be taken by court.

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