Amendments to the 1995 law, which regulates the WAQF indebtedness would add non-Muslims to the planks that manage such real estate.
The Bill from amendment waqfHe greeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a “large turning point for reform and transparency,” the upper house of parliament was early on Friday, day after approved by the lower house.
Amendments to the 1995 Act. Years Muslim debtors He would add non-Muslims to the boards that manage such properties and give a government to a larger role in the provision of their lands.
WAQF refers to personal property – moving or immobile – it is permanent Donated to Muslims for religious or charitable purposes. WAQF properties cannot be sold or transferred.
The government says the changes in the laws regulating WAQF real estate in the fight against corruption and bad governance, but critics are afraid to further violate the rights of the Muslim minority of the country and could be used to delay historical mosques and other properties.
Two days of intense discussions in Parliament over Bilom saw that the Congress Party condemned as “uncovered”, with the leader of the party Sonia Gandhi, calling him “Attack in the Constitution”.
“It is a very part of the intentional BJP strategy to keep our society in a state of constant polarization,” she said, referring to the Bharatiya Janata Party Modice Right.
On Friday, Jairom Ramesh Congress leader said that the party would “very quickly be challenging in the Supreme Court Constitutionality WAQF (amendment) Bill, 2024“As the proposal is called.
“We are convinced and we will continue to resist all the attacks of the government’s fashion on the principles, provisions and practices contained in the Constitution of India,” Ramesh announced on X.
One of the most controversial changes in the WAQF account is in its property ownership, which could affect hundreds of mosques, shrines and cemetery. Many such properties lack formal documentation because they are donated without legal records of decades, even for centuries, before.
Home Minister Amit Shah, close to Modi Assistant, said changes will help “catch people who knock properties” for individual gains.
“That money, which could be used to help develop minorities, stolen,” he said.
But the communist party in India (Marxist) Subhashini, but accused the government to use the account for polarizing voters before state choices in Bihar, the key northern Indian state, the BJP yet to be managed directly.
The Chief Minister of State Tamil Nadu Mk Stalin said that his party plans to challenge the legislation in the Supreme Court. Legislators in the State Assembly previously brought the resolution of opposing amendments.
“Bill about Waqf speaks of every Indian Muslim:” You are not an equal citizen of India, you know your right, your rights are not the same as our entire Trinamool, published on X. “They never felt so sad.”
Legislation has drawn a strong condemnation from Muslim groups. Jamaat-e-Islami called this “direct attack on religious freedoms and constitutional rights”.
“The passage is very convicted,” said the President of the Group, Syed Sadatullah Husaini, accusing the government to undermine the rights of minority communities.
All Indian Muslim Personal Law, another prominent organization of the Community, said that such comments against the basis of Islamic indebendants as such bodies are necessary only Muslims.
The Committee said the account “muddy violations of the constitutional rights of Muslim citizens” and invited them to raise the protest against him.
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