The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) supremo Asaduddin Owaisi ridiculed the 'Waqf (Amendment) Bill 2024,' which proposes assigning a district collector to supervise disputes regarding Waqf properties.
The first meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, witnessed a heated exchange between BJP and opposition members over the provisions of the proposed legislation, sources said The first meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the
Ahead of the Joint Parliamentary Committee meeting on the Waqf Amendment Bill 2024, Shiv Sena Leader and Panelist of the JPC Naresh Mhaske on Thursday stated that as part of the Waqf Amendment Bill, we want the poorest and the most backwards of the citizens to get justice.
Sanjay Singh also claimed that after waqf, lands belonging to Gurudwaras, churches, and temples will also be taken and handed over to the friends of the Centre.
Pal said that the government has a specific purpose for bringing this bill that the people who waqf their properties, it should help the backward Muslims and women.
The first meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill 2024 will be held on August 22 in the Parliament House Annexe in the national capital
The Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, Waqf Act provides for the renaming of the Waqf Act, 1995, as the Unified Waqf Management, Empowerment, Efficiency and Development Act, 1995.
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.
The current Bill proposes to simplify the legal framework by incorporating the proposals of the Indian Railway Board Act, 1905 in the Railways Act, 1989. This will reduce the need to refer to two laws. Instead reference will be required only to one law.
As the Parliament convenes for the ongoing Budget Session on Friday, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will introduce new Bills including the Banking Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2024 to amend the Reserve Bank of India Act, the Banking Regulation Act and the State Bank of India Act among o