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With the Waqf (Amendment) Bill acceptable to beryllium taken up for information successful the Budget Session that starts Friday, aft the submission of a study by the Joint Committee of Parliament connected it, National Conference (NC) MP Aga Ruhullah Mehdi has said that successful “a last appeal”, helium volition conscionable MPs belonging to BJP allies JD(U) and TDP to rise concerns of the Muslim community.
“When the Session starts, I volition conscionable members of antithetic parties, including those of Mr Nitish Kumar’s enactment (JD-U) arsenic good arsenic Mr Chandrababu Naidu’s (TDP)… They person important Muslim populations successful their states and they should beryllium honorable to that colonisation and their rights,” Ruhullah told The Indian Express.
The Srinagar MP, who was not among those called for deposition by the Joint Committee of Parliament that deliberated the issue, said the Bill, which seeks to bring changes successful the medication of Waqf property, poses a situation to the Muslim community. “How does the close to practise our religion signifier up for america successful the future?” Ruhullah said.
While Ruhullah is 1 of lone 3 MPs from the Valley, helium said that arsenic representatives of the Muslim community, “we person to framework a response” to this. “Of people that effect has to beryllium antiauthoritarian and genuine,” helium said. “But the information is that antiauthoritarian means person been designed successful a mode by this authorities that it doesn’t perceive to the number community… So we request to find ways to respond to this challenge.”
On the cardinal issues of interest successful the Waqf Bill, Ruhullah questioned powers fixed to officials, arsenic good arsenic the clause providing for inclusion of non-Muslim members successful the Waqf board. He said that since the Waqf functions arsenic per laws derived from the Shariat, Quran and Hadees, “When a non-Muslim is placed successful the Waqf, that amounts to interference. It takes distant the state of functioning of the Waqf.”
On Wednesday, successful a uncommon meeting, Ruhullah called connected Hurriyat person Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who came to New Delhi past week to depose earlier the Waqf sheet and has been successful the Capital since.
The MP said helium chiefly wanted to conscionable the Mirwaiz to sermon what the Hurriyat’s suggestions to the Waqf sheet were. “He wanted to sermon the challenges that helium felt we volition look arsenic a effect of this Bill,” Ruhullah said, stressing that determination was thing governmental astir their meeting.
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The NC MP has been astatine likelihood with the enactment enactment implicit respective issues of contention betwixt the Jammu and Kashmir authorities and the Centre, demanding that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah property for statehood, among different things. Recently, Ruhullah participated successful a protestation implicit the caller preservation argumentation successful J&K on with leaders of the NC’s rival PDP.
Ruhullah’s gathering with Mirwaiz is besides important successful that respect arsenic the Hurriyat person represents the much hardline watercourse of Kashmir politics.
Asked astir the Waqf (Amendment) Bill 2 days ago, Omar said the last telephone rests with Parliament.
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