WAQF amendment Bill gets the approval of parliament

New -Delhi, April 4 (IANS). The WAQF (amendment) bill was approved in the 2025 Rajya Sabha. With this, the bill received the approval of Parliament. The bill was adopted in the early hours of Friday after 11 hours of discussion after appearing in the Bo -House. 128 votes were brought into his favor and 95 votes in protest march. The Lok Sabha has already approved it. The purpose of this bill is to change the WAQF board frame and reduce legal disputes by reducing the amendment in the WAQF Act. The Rajya Sabha meeting (Friday) took until 14:30 hours to pass the bill. All amendments of the opposition have fallen. A review of the DMK -LP Thiruchi Shiva of Tamil Nadu was divided into a vote, although the amendment also fell. Minister of Minority Affairs, Kiren Rijiju, responded to the discussion, rejected the allegations of the opposition that the government had set up this bill to intimidate the minorities. He said the opposition is doing the job to intimidate and deceive Muslims. He assured that the Bill Muslims did not harm Muslims. Kiren Rijiju called on opposition parliamentary members to mislead Muslims, and said: “The decision made by Premier Narendra Modi has a lot of thinking. They (opposition members) repeatedly said that we scare Muslims, but not so. -And design and the existing concept, have made us a lot of changes. WAQF Council will not be more than three non-Muslims, so there is no compromise with the interests of Muslims. He said that the land dispute in each district takes place, the collector sees it. You had objections to holding the collector in WAQF, so we kept the officer above it. He repeatedly speaks why the BJP is concerned about Muslims. If people made Narendra Modi the Prime Minister, shouldn’t they be worried about Muslims? He said: “We have repeatedly said that no interference in WAQF property is being done. The opposition has talked about many temples. The council there does not have a non-religious person. The Waqf Council has any dispute between the Hindu Moslem, so how will it be handled?” Rijiju said: “You say that there is a lot of poverty among Muslims and that the government should think about the poor. After independence, the congress was decades after independence. So why did the congress not work for it? Now we think of the poor. We have repeatedly said that there is no interference in the property?” Earlier, during the discussion, the ruling leaders counted its benefits and accused the opposition of misleading Muslims of the country. On the other hand, the leaders of the opposition described it against the Constitution. While offering the bill, Kiren Rijiju said that one proposals for crore were received in support of the WAQF Amendment Bill. The joint parliamentary committee went to ten cities to know the opinion of the people about the bill and talk to 284 organizations. There are 8.72 lakh waqf properties today. Health Minister and the leader of the home, JP Nadda, said that the basic purpose of the WAQF (amendment) bill is to properly manage WAQF’s property by bringing reforms. He said that through this home I would like to tell the people of the country that the government led by Premier Narendra Modi is moving full forward by following democratic rules. There is a need to determine the correct maintenance and accountability of WAQF properties. He raised the question that who has kept the Muslim community in fear for 70 years? He said that Congress has accepted this policy for decades, but that people have now seen the result. The leader of the opposition Malikarjun Kharge said that this Waqf Bill is not a common law. This law is made weapons for political profits. It is used by the Modi government to weaken the diversity of the country in a planned way. When this bill was approved late in the Lok Sabha, 288 votes were cast in its favor and 232 votes in the opposition. From this we can recommend that this bill, even after the opposition of different parties, has been randomly brought. The BJP government talks a lot about the well -being of minorities. Empowerment is done. But the truth is clear from the budget allocation of the five -year minority department of the government. The budget allocation of this Department in FY 2019-20 was Rs 4,700 crore, which found at 2.608 crore in 2023-24. The budget allocation in FY 2022-23 was Rs 2,612 crore, of which the ministry could not spend Rs 1.775 crore. In total, the budget was received over five years, Rs 18.274 Crore, of which 3,574 crore could not be spent. -Ians Ekde/