UP Minister Om Prakash Rajbhar supports Waqf amenedment bill, says "will stop land-grabbing"

Ambedkar Nagar (Uttar Pradesh) [India] August 11 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Minister and chief of Shuldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP) Om Prakash Rajbhar on Sunday supported Waqf (Amendment) Bill, claiming that it would "stop land-grabbing" and "bring transparency."
Rajbhar, who looks over the matters related to the state Waqf board, said, "Waqf board says that this land is ours and people admit, to stop this land-grabbing, to bring transparency and to give proper representation to women, the government has introduced this bill."
"The bill is not introduced to hurt any religion as the opposition are racketing," Rajbhar further said.
Rajbhar claimed that every day he receives 10 to 20 cases related to the Waqf board in which people claim that the board has grabbed their land.
"I am welfare minister in UP and daily receive 10 to 20 cases related to Waqf board in which people claim that they have grabbed our land or sold our land, to stop this and to bring transparency, the amendment bill is introduced."
A 31-member Joint Parliamentary Committee including 21 Lok Sabha MPs and 10 Rajya Sabha MPs has been constituted to look into the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024. Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Kiren Rijiju introduced The Waqf (Amendment) Bill and proposed sending it to a joint parliamentary committee after Opposition parties objected to its provision.
UP minister Rajbhar also "welcomed" the observation of the Supreme Court on sub-classification of SC/ST communities.
Rajbhar said, "I have been saying this for the past 22 years that the people who have become IAS, SP DIG, Governor or PM, what they need a reservation for? Baba Saheb has fought for the reservation for the people who are struggling."
"We welcome the Supreme Court's decision and it should be implicated across the nation so the poor, backwards and other people who are struggling can reap the benefits," Rajbhar said.
Earlier on Friday, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that there is no provision for creamy layer in SCs and STs reservation in the Constitution drafted by BR Ambedkar, and the NDA government is bound to follow that Constitution.
The Supreme Court had ruled that states have the power to sub-classify Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs). The top court had also observed that states can evolve a policy for identifying the creamy layer, even from the SCs and STs to exclude them from the benefit of affirmative action. (ANI)