Waqf Amendment Act News
BJP’s approach is not loud. It is slow, targeted and focussed. It is not trying to claim all Muslims. Just the ones who have always felt invisible.
Kapil Sibal told SC waqf is not secular but Muslim-dedicated property, opposing new law allowing non-Muslims in waqf bodies.
The Tamil Maanila Muslim League (TMML), a Tamil Nadu-based Islamic Organisation representing Muslims, have supported the Unified Waqf Management, Empowerment, Efficiency, and Development (UMEED) Act, 2025.
AIMIM leader and Hyderanad MP Asaduddin Owaisi said that All India Muslim Personal Law Board believes this black law is unconstitutional as it violates fundamental rights.
Reacting to the SC's observations about non-Muslims as Waqf board member, Jagdambika Pal, Chairman of the JPC of the Waqf (Amendment) Bill and BJP MP, said that the apex court has already given certain verdicts related to the board.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justices Sanjay Kumar and K.V. Viswanathan was on Wednesday willing to issue a notice on the petitions and pass a short order.
The CJI further suggested that a high court might be asked to take up the matter. However, senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi opposed the idea.
The Bengal Chief Minister said that the TMC is at the forefront of the fight against Waqf law in Parliament as the Act is against the federal structure of the country.
A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna, Justice Sanjay Kumar, and Justice KV Viswanathan will commence hearings on the matter at 2 PM. So far, the court has listed ten petitions for consideration.
Kiren Rijiju, who was flanked by Union Minister of State George Kurien and state BJP president Rajeev Chandrasekhar, said that following the amendment, 'there will be no arbitrary declaration of a land as Waqf property'.
Waqf Protest Violence In Bengal: Sukanta Majumdar, Union Minister & West Bengal BJP President, accused the TMC government of handing over the state to jihadis.
Siddiqullah Chowdhury, an MLA from the Mangalkot constituency in Purba Bardhaman, also alleged that the RSS and BJP were deliberately singling out the Muslim community.
According to the KPSS, more than 1,400 temple properties in the Kashmir Valley have been encroached upon.
BJP office-bearers from across the country attended a workshop in Delhi as Nadda accused the opposition parties of misleading Muslims over the provisions of the amended law as part of their vote-bank politics.
President Droupadi Murmu on April 5 gave her assent to the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025, which was passed by Parliament after heated debates in both houses.
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