New Delhi – A Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on 27.1.2025 cleared the Waqf Amendment Bill which seeks to make 44 changes in the way Muslim Charitable Properties are managed in the country, with 14 alterations to the Draft tabled in the House in August last year.
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DMK MP A Raja, amember of the JPC, said their ‘fight’ in the panel’s proceedings is ‘not for the JPC or Parliament’ but for the Supreme Court. He said the proposed law will be unconstitutional and his party will move the Supreme Court against it. The documents produced and points made in the Committee will be useful in the judicial challenges to the Bill once it is enacted, he added.
Opposition from other parties
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) Chief Asaduddin Owaisi said that they received a 655-page Draft a night before. It is impossible to read a 655-page Draft in one night. I have expressed my disagreement and will oppose this Bill in Parliament as well.
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