SP to oppose Centre’s move to amend law governing Waqf boards

05 Aug 2024 Evaluate

Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav said his party will oppose the Centre’s move to bring a Bill in Parliament to amend the 1995 law governing Waqf boards. 

Accusing the BJP on issue, SP Chief said BJP's only work is to divide Hindus and Muslims, snatch the rights of Muslim brothers and work on the manner in which to snatch the rights given to them in the Constitution. Akhilesh Yadav’s comment came after it reported that the central government is all set to bring a Bill in Parliament to amend the 1995 law governing Waqf Boards to ensure more accountability and transparency in their functioning and mandatory inclusion of women in these bodies. The amendment bill, which will make it mandatory for Waqf boards to register their properties with district collectors to ensure their actual valuation.

SP chief further said that the Modi government had earlier snatched the rights of Anglo-Indians. He said Anglo-Indians used to have one seat in the Lok Sabha and one in the Vidhan Sabha. They had their own representation, but they got a fake census done and snatched the seats of Anglo-India.

Targeting Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over the Uttar Pradesh Nazul Property (Management and use of public purposes) Bill, 2024 presented by the state government, former UP CM said, ‘Look how intelligent our chief minister is… He found out that nuzul is an Urdu word. The officers kept explaining to him that nuzul means something else but he said no, nuzul means land of Muslims’. He added, ‘Think about it, this person was getting the whole of Prayagraj and Gorakhpur vacated only because of the Urdu word nuzul. He has some personal interest in Gorakhpur or some of his colleagues have some personal interest’. The Bill presented by the state government was sent to the select committee in the Upper House (Legislative Council) and could not be passed after some BJP leaders opposed it.


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