Waqf Board Amendment Row: Waqf Must Dump ‘Touch-Me-Not’ Syndrome, Says BJP’s Naqvi

Waqf Board Amendment Row: Senior BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Sunday backed the proposed amendments to Waqf Act, asserting that the Waqf technique let go of the “contact-me-now not” syndrome, adding that a “communal attack on inclusive reforms” is now not identical.

“The Waqf technique will come out of the madness of ‘contact-me-now not’ syndrome-politics. A communal attack on inclusive reforms is now not identical,” the former minority affairs minister recounted in a publish on X in Hindi.

Naqvi’s remarks bought here amidst the backdrop of experiences mentioning that the BJP-led Relevant govt is made up our minds to bring a Bill in Parliament to amend the 1995 strategies governing Waqf boards to verify more accountability and transparency of their functioning and the needed inclusion of ladies in these our bodies.

Sources claimed that the modification Bill, so that you may make it needed for Waqf boards to register their residences with district collectors to verify their interesting valuation, has been extra following wants from inside of the Muslim local.

For the time being, the proposed amendments inside of the Wakf Act were antagonistic due to diverse Muslim enterprises and clerics, with the All India Muslim Very possess Legislation Board pronouncing that any interference with the prison wisdom and the powers of Waqf boards will now not be tolerated.

All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi alleged that the BJP-led NDA govt at the Centre wants to take away the autonomy of Waqf Boards.

The Hyderabad MP most generally identified as the go every distinctive effort due to the Narendra Modi-led BJP govt to take away the self reliant nature of the Waqf Board, which he claimed grew to develop into an attack on the freedom of religion.

“In the opening, when Parliament is in session, the significant govt is performing in opposition to parliamentary supremacy and privileges and informing the media and now not informing Parliament. I may say that along with the truth that has been written inside of the media about this proposed modification suggests that the Modi govt wants to take away the autonomy of the Waqf Board and it wants to intervene. This itself is in opposition to the freedom of religion,” Owaisi told reporters at a presser in Hyderabad.

Owaisi claimed the BJP has been in opposition to Waqf boards and Waqf residences “from the very opening” and it has made attempts to complete these as per its “Hindutva agenda”.

(With inputs from enterprises)