Bill meant to usurp Waqf land, JPC told

Roushan Ali / Updated: Sep 11, 2024, 16:45 IST

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Hyderabad: A delegation of the Telangana Waqf Board has submitted a memorandum to the Joint Parliamentary Committee (renamed as Joint Working Committee) on the proposed Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, in New Delhi and rejected the Bill, pointing out 41 proposed amendments in it as “detrimental to Muslims and aimed at usurping waqf properties”.
The delegation was led by Telangana Waqf Board chairman Syed Azmatullah Husseni, with AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi, four-term board member and former central waqf council member Syed Akbar Nizamuddin, Telangana Urdu Academy and Minorities Finance Corporation chairpersons Taher Bin Hamdan and Obedulla Kothwal respectively, and the board’s chief executive officer Mohammed Asadullah, among others, giving their opinion on the amendments proposed in the proposed bill.
It was on August 26 that a special meeting of the Telangana Waqf Board unanimously resolved to reject the Centre’s Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, thereby becoming the first such board in the country to formally oppose the proposed amendments to the Waqf Act.
Sources told TOI that the delegation members, including Azmatullah Husseni, Akbar Nizamuddin, and Owaisi, pointed out 41 proposed amendments point by point and explained how damaging they were to the Muslims and waqf properties. For example, they said while the Centre proposes to remove the provision of non-Muslims donating their properties to waqf, it at the same time wants two non-Muslim members on the waqf boards in every state.
The JWC, which called for the hearing on Friday, laid down the condition that the details of the meeting should not be divulged anywhere else.

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