After the Waqf Amendment Bill 2025 was passed in the Lok Sabha, Congress MP and JPC member Imran Masood on Thursday called it a "black day," saying that they will go to the court and fight against this bill.
Rijiju said that India has the highest number of Waqf properties in the world and questioned why they haven't been used for the education, medical treatment, skill development, and income generation of poor Muslims.
Deputy leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi will open the argument on Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, from the side of the opposition after Union Minority Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju tables the bill in Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
Taking a jibe at the Uttar Pradesh government for declaring 78 per cent of properties including old mosques as government property, Masood said that the Waqf Amendment Bill was overlapping several sections of the Constitution.
Syed Naseruddin Chishty, the Chairman of All India Sufi Sajjadanashin Council, rebuked Congress leader Imran Masood's accusation that he was "brokering" for the BJP over the Waqf Bill and challenged him to 'prove' his remarks.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday expressed his strong opposition on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill and accused Bharatiya Janata Party of "interfering" in everything to gain control.
According to sources, authorities have set up eight additional security checkpoints on the road leading up to the jail, with approximately 200 officers and personnel placed on duty under the security plan.
Congress MP Imran Pratapgarhi on Friday thanked Supreme Court for quashing the FIR filed against him over his poem and said that this message from the apex court goes far.
Stressing the importance of protecting the freedom of speech and expression, the Supreme Court on Friday quashed an FIR registered against Congress MP Imran Pratapgarhi by Gujarat police over a social media post with a poem 'ae khoon ke pyase baat suno