Wasim Rizvi changed caste after conversion: Former Shia Waqf Board Chairman Wasim Rizvi has changed his caste after converting to Hinduism. When he converted to religion in 2021, he changed his name to Jitendra Narayan Tyagi. Now he has changed his name to Jitendra Narayan Singh Sengar. Now she has become a Thakur from a renunciant Brahmin. Rizvi said in one of his statements that I have been expelled from Islam.
Jitendra Narayan Singh Sengar extended Diwali wishes and also announced his new name. When Wasim Rizvi left Islam and adopted Hinduism, he came into limelight.
When Wasim Rizvi changed his religion
When Wasim Rizvi left the religion, the religious leaders of Islam issued a fatwa against Rizvi. Even in the family there was a dispute going on against him. Mother and brother broke ties with him. He has always been accused of making controversial statements regarding Islamic religious leaders.
Jitendra Narayan Singh Sengar
Wasim Rizvi (now Jitendra Narayan Singh Sengar) has been the chairman of the Shia Waqf Central Board and has been in the news since the Yogi Adityanath government came to power in Uttar Pradesh in 2017. He came into limelight for linking madrassa education to terrorism and filing a petition in the Supreme Court demanding the removal of Qutub Minar.
Rizvi had then claimed that some educational institutions promote fundamentalist ideology. This statement was strongly opposed by Rizvi from both Shia and Sunni communities. In response to his controversial views, both Shia and Sunni communities issued fatwas against Rizvi, which subsequently expelled him from Islam.