Thiruvananthapuram, Nov. 28 -- The action council driving over a year-long protest in Munambam, a coastal hamlet in Kerala's Ernakulam district, demanding ownership and revenue rights over the land they reside in amid a Waqf dispute is likely to decide to end the agitation soon.

The agitation, which began on October 13, 2024 and has been ongoing for over 400 days, was propelled when the local panchayat suspended the process to accept land tax from the local residents after the State Waqf Board claimed ownership of nearly 404 acres of land. The Board claimed that the contested land in Munambam, on which nearly 600 families, mostly Christians, resided, was gifted by an individual named Siddique Sait as 'waqf' to the Farooq College in Kozhi...