“No Mosques Will Be Touched”: BJP’s Ravi Shankar Prasad On Waqf Invoice
New Delhi:
The Waqf (Modification) Invoice, which has been cleared by each the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha after heated, marathon debates, will profit ladies from the Muslim neighborhood and guarantee transparency, BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad has stated.
In an unique dialog with NDTV on Friday, the previous regulation minister insisted that no mosque, place of worship or ‘kabrastan’ (graveyard) goes to be touched.
“The problem could be very easy and straight. Whether or not the intention of the ‘Waqif’ who created the Waqf for noble functions is being executed correctly by the ‘Muttawali’, who’s the supervisor, or not. A Waqf will not be a spiritual physique in any respect. It’s a authorized or a statutory physique… The ‘Muttawali’ is only a superintendent or a supervisor. He doesn’t have any rights over the property, as a result of as soon as a Waqf has been created, the property vests in Allah, peace be on him,” Mr Prasad stated, including that the Invoice will empower Muslim ladies and assist widows and the marginalised from the neighborhood.
The senior BJP chief identified that areas close to the Dak Bungalow locality in Patna – town he’s from – have a variety of Waqf land however five-star inns and showrooms have come up there. He additionally stated India has the very best variety of Waqf properties on the earth and requested what number of hospitals, universities and coaching centres have been constructed there.
“Is the supervisor utilizing the property the best way the one who devoted it supposed or is he stuffing his pockets? That’s the query. And a drama is being created over this… Let me let you know, folks from my state and your entire nation are going to understand (this Invoice). Folks have been dismayed to be taught that a lot property is being misused,” he stated.
Transparency
Mr Prasad asserted that the invoice will assist convey transparency by making Waqf boards accountable.
“The whole factor is being made accountable, every part will probably be accessible on-line, digitisation will occur, you may see which property is the place, who’s the Muttawali, what use is the actual property being put to by way of the intention of the ‘Waqif (the particular person dedicating the property). So, all this stuff are very clear now,” he stated.
Backlash anticipated?
To a query on whether or not the federal government is fearing some form of backlash from the Muslim neighborhood and the doable impression the passage of the Invoice would have on Nitish Kumar, who enjoys assist amongst them, forward of the Bihar Meeting polls later this 12 months, Mr Prasad stated the queries round Mr Kumar have been requested since he allied with the BJP in 1996.
Pointing to the protests towards the Citizenship (Modification) Act, the BJP chief stated the citizenship of not even one Muslim has been taken away.
“However the bigger problem is we have been two in 1984, simply two (the BJP had two seats) within the 1984 Lok Sabha. The place are we right this moment? Ruling the nation, in additional than 21 states of the nation. Nitish Kumar ji, our very proud colleague and pal, has been a chief minister for 19 years,” he stated.
The previous regulation minister additionally insisted that India’s polity has undergone a ‘tectonic metamorphosis’.
“…whereas the character of the argument is identical. Secular, communal, appeasement. The world has modified. India has modified. And I’d say the younger folks of the minority neighborhood and the pondering neighborhood have additionally modified… And a few persons are making an attempt to frustrate that change by the identical logic of the Nineteen Nineties and Nineteen Eighties,” he stated.
