‘Will not Step Again’: Owaisi Vows To Proceed Protests Towards Waqf Act Until It Is Withdrawn – News18

Final Up to date:April 22, 2025, 15:58 IST

The AIMPLB introduced a marketing campaign referred to as ‘Save Waqf, Save Structure’ to be launched in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi has vowed to proceed protests towards the Waqf (Modification) Act till it’s rolled again, accusing the Centre of “focusing on” Muslim id and rights.

Addressing a public assembly organised on Saturday evening by the All India Muslim Private Regulation Board (AIMPLB) on the AIMIM headquarters in Hyderabad, he emphasised that the opposition to the Act would mirror the sooner protests towards the repealed farm legal guidelines.

“You (PM Narendra Modi) must take again this legislation. The way in which our farmer brothers have proven the trail, we’ll proceed to agitate in the identical manner. Till the legislation is withdrawn, there will probably be peaceable protests within the nation,” he stated.

He requested the group: “Are you (gathering) prepared for a long-drawn democratic battle? In case you are prepared, promise your self that we’ll proceed to protest until this black legislation is just not withdrawn and we won’t step again.” Referring to the triple talaq legislation, CAA and non secular conversion legislations in BJP-ruled states, Owaisi alleged that PM Modi has been attacking the spiritual id of Muslims for the previous 11 years.

“Now, within the title of Uniform Civil Code, he (Modi) desires to remove our Shariat from us.” The AIMIM chief additionally claimed that the exclusion of the Dawoodi Bohras from the Waqf (Modification) invoice was a transfer to divide and weaken the Muslim group.

Taking exception to a BJP chief’s remarks on the Supreme Courtroom, Owaisi stated, “When verdicts like these in Ayodhya and different instances go towards Muslims, we don’t lash out… Even when the choice goes towards what we want for, we settle for it. We settle for as a result of we consider in constitutional morality. However, these Sangh Parivar persons are anti-constitution folks…” He additional alleged that the BJP is “undermining the Structure and threatening with a non secular conflict.” “Mr Modi, who received radicalised? You might be in energy. Your folks received radicalised. They received so radicalised that they’re threatening the courtroom that there will probably be a non secular conflict,” he stated.

Talking on the event, DMK MP MM Abdulla stated the get together supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Ok Stalin had requested him to convey to the gathering that the get together stood in solidarity with not simply the minorities of Tamil Nadu, however with the minorities of the nation.

A number of different leaders, together with AIMPLB president Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rehmani, additionally addressed the gathering.

The AIMPLB introduced a marketing campaign referred to as ‘Save Waqf, Save Structure’ to be launched in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

As a part of it, a sequence of actions are deliberate, together with blackout protests, round-table discussions, Ladies’s public gathering, human chain protest, sit-in protest and public conferences.

A central sit-in protest will probably be held in Hyderabad on June 1, the AIMPLB stated in a launch.

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