Waqf Amendment Bill: Asaduddin Owaisi, Muslim Personal Board President Meet Revanth Reddy
AIMIM leader and Lok Sabha member Asaduddin Owaisi, along with All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) president Khalid Saifullah Rahmani, met Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy today to brief him on the dangers of the proposed Waqf Amendment Bill 2024. After the meeting, Owaisi stated that the delegation had “emphasised the great dangers of the amendments to the Waqf law” to Revanth Reddy, one of the three Congress chief ministers in the country.
Prior to the meeting, Owaisi tweeted that the discussion was part of an outreach programme by AIMPLB to inform chief ministers of secular parties about the potential dangers of the Waqf Amendment Bill.
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The Waqf amendments bill was introduced on August 9, and it was referred to a parliamentary standing committee following heated opposition in the parliament. The controversial bill has been opposed by opposition parties and the Muslim bodies, as the amendments seek to strip the board’s power.
Though the government claims that the bill does not aim to interfere in the Islamic structures and Waqf assets, it empowers district collector, in place of the board, to determine if a property is Waqf or not.
Opposition politicians from parties like Congress, Trinamool Congress, Samajwadi Party, among others have slammed the bill calling it an attempt to snatch Muslim’s rights and an attack to undermine the federal system.
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Notably, the AIMPLB recently claimed that the NDA allies, the JDU and the TDP have assured that they would not allow the bill to be passed in the parliament, given the contentious provisions involved. Without the backing from its allies, the BJP can no longer pass bills in the parliament, as it did during the last ten years.
Recently, the government was forced to withdraw the lateral entry hiring police amid rebel voices from within NDA and strong protest from the opposition.
