{"id":3599,"date":"2025-04-02T14:52:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T14:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiaspeaks.com\/?p=3599"},"modified":"2025-04-02T14:52:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T14:52:47","slug":"kashmir-based-parties-slam-waqf-amendment-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiaspeaks.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/kashmir-based-parties-slam-waqf-amendment-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Kashmir-based parties slam Waqf Amendment Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Srinagar- Political parties in Kashmir on Wednesday opposed the amendments made to the Waqf Act saying it was an interference in religious matters and an attempt to disempower Muslims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Union Minority Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday tabled the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025, in the Lok Sabha. The Bill seeks to improve the functioning of Waqf properties, address complexities, ensure transparency and introduce technology-driven management<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opposition parties have slammed it as \u201cunconstitutional\u201d and against the interest of the Muslim community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis bill is designed to disempower Muslims. I don\u2019t have any hope with BJP as we have been seeing for the past 10-11 years how Muslims are lynched and mosques demolished\u2026 but the Hindu brethren should step forward because this is the nation of Gandhi, it should run as per the constitution,\u201d PDP president Mehbooba Mufti told reporters here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said the secular forces should intervene to prevent the country becoming another Myanmar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey (Hindus) have to if they do not want another Myanmar here, if they do not want the same to happen to Muslims what happened to Kashmiri Pandits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo, people have to come forward and stop the injustice, the takeover of the Waqf board that is taking place now,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former chief minister said if the people continue to remain mute spectators, \u201cno one can stop the chaos in the country\u201d. The BJP is breaking the country, she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People\u2019s Conference chairman Sajad Gani Lone also opposed the Waqf Bill amendments. Waqf by definition is the custodian of properties which are collectively owned by Muslims, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe proposed amendment by Parliament is a blatant interference in our faith aimed at divesting rightfully custodians of their authority. Yet another right wing trespass,\u201d Lone said in a post on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday said his party would not support the amendments as \u201conly one religion is being targeted\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have also said that every religion has its institutions and every religion has a charitable wing, and for us it is the Waqf,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abdullah, the National Conference vice-president, added, \u201cTargeting Waqf like this is very unfortunate\u2026 Now, it is up to Parliament. We cannot support this Bill. Our MPs will strongly oppose it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, BJP leader Darakhshan Andrabi welcomed the amendments. \u201cHow does Waqf have so many properties but still Muslim brothers were poor? she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWaqf has thousands of kanals of land, but despite that, a majority of Muslims were homeless and landless. The government, the PM, is thinking about these issues so that the Muslim community does not remain poor and gets all facilities,\u201d Andrabi said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(PTI<\/em><\/p>\n

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