New Delhi:
AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday warned the federal government towards tabling the Waqf (Modification) Invoice, 2024, in its present kind, saying that it could result in social instability within the nation.
Mr Owaisi stated that the Invoice has been rejected by the whole Muslim neighborhood.
“I’m cautioning and warning this authorities – in the event you carry and make a Waqf regulation within the current kind, which will probably be a violation of Article 25, 26 and 14, it is going to result in social instability on this nation. It has been rejected by the whole Muslim neighborhood. No Waqf property will probably be left, nothing will probably be left,” the AIMIM chief stated throughout his handle within the Lok Sabha.
“You wish to make India ‘Viksit Bharat’, we would like ‘Viksit Bharat’. You wish to take this nation again to the ’80s and early ’90s, it will likely be your accountability,” he added.
He additional stated, “As a proud Indian Muslim, I cannot lose an inch of my Masjid…I cannot lose an inch of my Dargah. I cannot enable that. We are going to no extra come and provides a diplomatic discuss over right here. That is the Home the place I’ve to face and converse actually, that my neighborhood – we’re proud Indians. It’s my property, not given by anybody. You can’t snatch it away from me. Waqf is a type of worship for me.”
Earlier within the day, opposition MPs Kalyan Banerjee (Lok Sabha) and Md. Nadimul Haque (Rajya Sabha) strongly protested the elimination of key parts from their dissent notes submitted to the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the Waqf (Modification) Invoice, 2024.
In a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, the MPs alleged that their objections have been arbitrarily deleted with out prior discover or rationalization.
“To our dismay and utter shock, we discovered that the next goals and dissent notes have been deleted by the Chairman with out informing us and with out our consent,” the MPs wrote of their letter dated February 3, 2025.
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