Waqf Invoice launched in Lok Sabha; voting will determine which celebration is secular, says Sibal
The Union authorities first introduced the introduction of the Waqf (Modification) Invoice 2025 on Tuesday, revealing that the Invoice could be tabled within the Lok Sabha shortly after Query Hour. The Invoice might be adopted by an in depth debate lasting as much as eight hours.
The Invoice builds on the 2024 Waqf (Modification) Invoice and the Mussalman Waqf (Repeal) Invoice, which have been launched with related aims. The federal government is hopeful that the amendments in laws will go with broad assist throughout the political spectrum, although opposition to the Invoice has come from a number of quarters.
Former Union legislation minister Kapil Sibal got here out all weapons blazing in opposition to the Centre over the Waqf Invoice on Wednesday, accusing it of singling out a specific group and devising methods to focus on it for electoral good points. Talking to media forward of the introduction of the Waqf Invoice within the Lok Sabha, Sibal stated the BJP-led authorities has a single level agenda behind this Invoice, and that’s to focus on and harass Muslims.
He listed out many insurance policies of the Centre, together with the Uniform Civil Code, ‘love jihad’, and bulldozer justice, and stated the federal government was utilizing them as ‘instruments’ to focus on Muslims. He stated the voting on the Waqf Invoice would present which celebration is secular and which one is working with a motivated agenda.
“It must be seen how its alliance companions, together with Nitish, Naidu and Paswan’s celebration vote on the Waqf Invoice. Nitish’s JD(U) has its electoral compulsions due to the approaching meeting elections in Bihar and should choose to stroll out. Chirag Paswan’s LNJP might undertake the identical technique to offer the BJP mileage within the numbers recreation,” he stated. “Naidu’s TDP objected to one of many clauses of the Invoice which entrusts district collector with the facility to determine the character of land. However, this isn’t sufficient.”
