India’s parliament approves controversial bill on Muslim land endowments

• The Indian Parliament has issued a controversial proposal for the law amending the laws governing Muslim land regions known as WAQFS, with the involvement of non -Muslims in the committees managing these real estate and increasing the government’s supervision.
• The Government claims that changes aim to fight corruption and promote diversity, but critics claim that this is undermined by Muslim rights and can lead to the deprivation of historical religious places.
• Muslim groups and opposition parties expressed concern that the proposal of the law was politically motivated and that Muslims could marginalize by changing the ownership rules and demanding a committee for WAQF to confirm the property request.

Indian Parliament He adopted a controversial proposal for the law initiated by the Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to amend the law managing Muslim land borrowings, while Muslim groups and opposition parties protested the move.

The draft would add non-Muslims to the committees that manage WAQF gifts and give the Government a greater role in confirming their stakes in the country. The Government says that changes will help fight corruption and poor management with the promotion of diversity, but critics are afraid that it will further undermine the Muslim minority in the country and that they could be used to seize historical mosques and other property.

The debate was heated in both houses of parliament. The lower house was discussing this on Wednesday until early Thursday, while in Gornji Home, a fire discussion lasted more than 16 hours until the early Friday.

The proportion under the leadership of the Congress firmly opposed the proposal, calling it unconstitutional and discriminating Muslims. Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Jadana party does not have a majority in the lower home, but his allies helped to bring an account.

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In the lower home, 288 members voted for the bill, while 232 were against it. Similarly, 128 was favored and 95 voted against it in the upper home. The proposal of the law will now be sent to the President of the Droupada Murma to make her consent the law.

Minister of Minority Affairs, Kiren Ria, introduced a bill to change the Law of 1995, which set up rules for the foundation and founded a state level committee in order to manage them.

Many Muslim groups, as well as opposition parties, say that the proposal is discriminating, politically motivated and the attempt of Modi’s ruling party to weaken the rights of minorities.

The proposal of the law was first presented in parliament last year, and opposition leaders said that some of their following proposals were neglected for him. The government said the opposition parties use rumors to discredit them and block transparency in the management of debit.

What is Waqf?

Waqfs are a traditional type of Islamic charity foundation in which the donor permanently reject property – often but not always real estate – for religious or charity. Waqf properties cannot be sold or transferred.

Waqf in India control 872,000 real estate covered by 405,000 hectares (1 million hectares) of land, worth about $ 14.22 billion. Some of these endowments date a century, and many are used for mosques, seminarians, cemetery and orphanages.

Law would change who leads Waqfs

In India, the Waqf property is managed by semi-official committees, one for each state and the federal guidance of the Union Territory. The law would require not Muslims to be appointed in the committee.

Currently, Waqf plates have Muslims, such as similar bodies that help manage other religious charity organizations.

During Parliamentary discussionInterior Minister Amit Shah said the non -Muslims will be involved in the WAQF panels only for administration purposes and for smooth administration. He added that they were not there to interfere with religious affairs.

“Members (non -Muslim) members will supervise whether the administration is working under the law or not whether donations are used for what they were intended or not,” he said.

Muslim groups, such as the All India of the Muslim Committee on Personal Law, said such comments against the basics of Islamic debt as such bodies that only Muslims should be managed. The Committee said that the proposal of the law was “a sharp violation of the constitutional rights of Muslim citizens” and urged citizens to hit the street against it.

Mallicarjun Kharge, President of the Congress, said: “Why should WAQF bodies allow non-Muslims as members when the Hindu Temple of trust does not allow people of other religions in their folds?”

One of the most controversial changes is the rules of ownership, which could affect historical mosques, shrines and cemetery, because many such properties lack formal documentation because they have been donated without legal records of decades and even centuries, before.

Questions about the title

Other changes could affect mosques on land held in the centuries -old Waqfs.

Radical Hindu groups set up a claim of several mosques across India, claiming that they were built on ruins of important Hindu temples. Many such cases are waiting in courts.

The Law would request the WAQF Committee to ask for the approval of an official at the district level to confirm the WAQFSA requests on the property.

Critics say this would undermine the committee and could lead to the Muslims being taken away from their country. It is not clear how often the committees would be sought to confirm such claims about the country.

“The Waqf (amendment) Bill is a weapon aimed at marginalizing Muslims and usurping Their Personal Laws and Property Rights,” Rahul Gandhi, The Main OPPOSITION Leader, Wrote on Social Media Platform X. He Said The Bill Was An “Attack on The Constitution” “Aimed at Muslims Today But Sets a Precedent to Target Other Communities in the Future.”

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Fears among Muslims

Although many Muslims agree that WAQFs suffer from corruption, attack and poor management, they are also afraid that the new law could give the Indian Hindu nationalist government far more control over Muslim property, especially at a time when attacks on minority communities became more aggressive under modes, and Muslims were often targeted for all of their diet meals.

Last month, the American Commission for International Religious Freedom in its annual report said that Conditions of religious freedom in India They continued to get worse while fashion and his party “propagated the hateful rhetoric and misinformation against Muslims and other religious minorities” during last year’s election campaign.

Modi’s government says India deals with democratic principles of equality and there is no discrimination in the country.

Muslims, who have 14% of 1.4 billion population in India, are the largest minority group in the Hindu majority Nation, but are also the poorest, the 2013 government research.

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