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WAQF AMENDMENT BILL

Modi hails the passage of law

as Opposition parties accuse Govt

of hurting the minorities

After the Parliament passed the Waqf Amendment Bill 2025, Rajya Sabha MP

Kapil Sibal on Friday said that the politics of division will harm the nation

OUR BUREAU amined the legislation introduced
in August last year. The bill seeks to
New Delhi
amend the Act of 1995 and improve
n a major development, the Par- the administration and management
liament passed the Waqf Amend- of waqf properties in India.
Iment Bill 2025 in the early hours The Bill aims to overcome the
of Friday after a marathon and heat- shortcomings of the previous act
ed debate. Rajya Sabha Chairman and enhance the efficiency of Waqf
Jagdeep Dhankhar said, “Ayes 128 boards, improving the registration
and Noes 95, Absent zero. The Bill is process and increasing the role of
passed.” technology in managing waqf re-
cords.
Parties of the INDIA bloc have
The Mussalman Wakf (Repeal) strongly opposed the bill.
Bill, 2024’ has also been passed There was a din briefly when
in the Parliament. The House Sudhanshu Trivedi was speaking on
the bill. The BJP member said that
sat beyond midnight to pass the Muslim community, which was

the legislation. Union Minority earlier identified with talented, cre-
ative people from the Bollywood, was
Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju ac- Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal speaks to the media at Parliament premises during the Budget now sought to be identified by peo-
Session, in New Delhi on Thursday. (ANI Photo/Jitender Gupta)
cused the opposition parties of ple who faced cases for breaching the
law. He took some names.
trying to mislead people on the remained on the margins, thus being was not scaring anyone and accused With some members of opposi-
Waqf Amendment Bill and said denied both voice and opportunity,” the opposition parties of trying to tion raising strong objections, Amit
PM Modi posted on X.
create a scare among members of the Shah said the BJP member had not
it will benefit crores of people Highlighting the importance of minority community. “You are trying made remarks about the Muslim
from the Muslim community. debate and dialogue, the Prime Min- to create a scare and trying to take community as such but taken names
ister expressed gratitude to all the (them) away from the mainstream. of some people facing cases who were
MPs who contributed to strengthen- Do not mislead in the future..it (the associated with the INDIA alliance.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi ing the Waqf (Amendment) Bill and bill) will benefit crores of Muslims,” After the Parliament passed the
on Friday said that the passage of the the Mussalman Wakf (Repeal) Bill. he said. Waqf Amendment Bill 2025, Rajya
Waqf (Amendment) Bill of 2025 was Earlier, replying to the over Rijiju said once a property is Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Friday said
a “watershed moment” and that this 12-hour-long debate on the bill in declared a Waqf property, its status that the politics of division will harm
would help the marginalised, who Rajya Sabha, Rijiju said several sug- cannot be changed and this has to be the nation.
have been “denied both voice and gestions made by the Joint Parlia- done by following the due process. “125 to 92 on the amendment
opportunity.” mentary Committee had been incor- Rijiju also accused the Con- and 128 to 95 for the passing of the
“The passage of the Waqf porated in the revised bill. “When gress-led UPA government of deno- bill. They are the majority in both
(Amendment) Bill and the Mus- the Waqf Amendment Bill was first tifying 123 prime properties on the Houses. Substantial numbers have
salman Wakf (Repeal) Bill by both drafted and the bill that we are pass- eve of Lok Sabha polls in 2014 due to opposed the bill. This will have politi-
Houses of Parliament marks a water- ing now, there are a lot of changes. “vote bank politics”. cal implications, especially for the po-
shed moment in our collective quest The bill would have been completely The government introduced the litical parties that have supported the
for socio-economic justice, transpar- different if we had not accepted any- revised bill after incorporating the BJP because there are elections in Bi-
ency and inclusive growth. This will one’s suggestions,” he said. recommendations of the Joint Par- har coming up... The politics of divi-
particularly help those who have long He said the BJP-led government liamentary Committee, which ex- sion will harm the nation,” Sibal said.

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