Waqf amendment bill 2024: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has recently expressed its displeasure over the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024 passed by Parliament and requested to meet President Draupadi Murmu immediately. Please tell that this law has passed in Parliament but the President has not approved it yet.
The board says that this new law interferes with the functioning of Waqf properties and can affect the religious freedom of Muslims. The board described it as unconstitutional and attack on Muslims. The board has written in the letter that this law is against the fundamental rights given in the constitution of the country, especially against the right to religious freedom and equality. Therefore, they want the President to give them time to meet them quickly so that they can keep their point.
What is the opinion of the government?
On the other hand, the government says that this law will increase transparency and accountability and this will improve Waqf properties. At the same time, AIMPLB and some opposition parties consider it an attack on the rights of Muslims and are preparing to go to court against it. AIMPLB is also planning to protest across the country and saying that they will demand to withdraw this law.
Who said what when the Waqf Bill was passed?
After the passage of Waqf Bill, Maulana Shahabuddin Rajvi Barelvi, National President of All India Muslim Jamaat in Bareilly, thanked the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government of the Center, saying, ‘I thank the Government of India. Also, I congratulate all the citizens of the country. He argued that this bill will benefit poor Muslims as the income of Waqf land will be used for their social and economic upliftment. Barelvi also said, ‘The Waqf Amendment Bill will not cause any harm to the common Muslims, but will only benefit, the loss will be to those Waqf land mafia who have occupied crores of lands.’
Mohammad Yasin, secretary of the Gyanvapi arrangements, expressed displeasure that the bill ‘violates the constitutional rights of the minorities’ and’ it will also weaken the ‘site of worship act’. Similarly, in Aligarh, Feroz Ahmed, the national president of All India Majlis-e-Mushwarat, described the bill against the principles of justice. Advocate Tanveer Ahmed, secretary of the royal Idgah Intezamia Committee, strongly opposed the Bill, alleging that its purpose is to ‘capture Waqf properties and give them to the favorite capitalists’.
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