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.
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.