‘Waqf Bill violates Muslim rights, Parliamentary panel report unconstitutional’: Opp MPs flag dissent

The Indian Express has learnt that successful his dissent enactment Owaisi has alleged that the BJP-led NDA authorities has brought the Waqf amendment Bill with the nonsubjective of weakening the foundations of the Waqf governance and undermining the rights of Muslims successful the country. He has sought the removal of each 44 clauses brought by the authorities to amend the Waqf Act 1995, maintaining that helium was opposed to the Bill for the involvement of justice, equality and law values.

Flagging the deposition of organisations specified arsenic the Sanatan Sanstha and Hindu Janajagruti Samiti earlier the panel, Owaisi charged that these outfits advocated for the constitution of a Hindu Rashtra done “unlawful means”.

Owaisi besides raised questions connected the Waqf Bill proposing to delete Section 107 of the 1995 instrumentality that had made the Limitation Act 1963 inapplicable to Waqf properties, it is learnt. He said that due to the fact that of this deletion, “encroachers” who person unlawfully possessed waqf spot for much than 12 years, would beryllium capable to assertion its rubric by adverse possession.

In their associated note, Congress MPs Naseer Hussain, Jawed and Masood pointed to “procedural lapses” successful the Committee’s functioning, it is learnt. They said the Bill is driven by governmental docket and not by a genuine interest for absorption of the Waqf properties. The Congress members said that Waqf is simply a spiritual enactment nether Islam and that it has been protected by our Constitution’s Articles 25 and 26. They besides stated that the projected Waqf Bill would pb to litigation, encroachment and nonaccomplishment of autonomy implicit Waqf institutions portion hurting the law rights of Muslims successful the country.

The TMC’s Kalyan Banerjee and Nadimul Haque jointly stated, it is learnt, that the minutes of the panel’s meetings were not provided to the Opposition members whose submissions, they charged, were besides not recorded. They alleged that the minutes were recorded based connected the Committee chairperson Jagdambika Pal’s dictation which, they claimed, did not contiguous the existent representation of the panel’s meetings.

In their associated note, the DMK’s Raja and Abdulla alleged that the panel’s study was “unconstitutional” and could ruin the secular cloth of the country. They besides charged that the committee’s proceedings were held successful an undemocratic manner.

The sheet adopted by a 15-11 bulk its study that contained 14 changes suggested by the BJP members and its NDA allies. These amendments to the Bill were adopted Monday by the panel, which rejected each 44 amendments projected by the Opposition, it is learnt.

Five members who were absent from voting included Gaurav Gogoi (Congress), Dileshwar Kamait (JD-U), Veerendra Heggade (nominated), Suresh Mhatre (NCP-SP) and the YSRCP’s Vijaysai Reddy (resigned).

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