Asaduddin Owaisi warned the government about the Waqf Amendment Bill and said that it will create social instability in the country

New Delhi: The government was cautioned by AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday not to introduce the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024 in its present shape, claiming that doing so will cause social unrest in the nation. The entire Muslim community has opposed the bill, according to Owaisi.

“I am warning and cautioning this administration that societal instability would result in this nation if a Waqf legislation is introduced and made in its current form, which would violate Articles 25, 26, and 14. The Muslim community as a whole has rejected it. During his speech in the Lok Sabha, the AIMIM chairman said, “No Waqf property will be left; nothing will be left.”

“We want ‘Viksit Bharat,’ and you want to build India that way. It will be your duty if you want to return our nation to the 1980s and early 1990s,” he said.

“As a proud Muslim from India, I will not lose an inch of my Masjid,” he said.My Dargah will not be lost in the slightest. I won’t permit that. We shall no longer visit and have a diplomatic discussion here. My community is pleased to be Indian, and here is the House where I must stand and speak truthfully. It was not handed to me; it is my property. I can’t have it taken away from me. For me, waqf is a kind of worship.

In their dissent notes to the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, opposition MPs Kalyan Banerjee (Lok Sabha) and Md. Nadimul Haque (Rajya Sabha) vehemently objected to the removal of important passages earlier in the day.

The MPs said in a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla that their concerns had been unfairly removed without warning or justification.

In their letter dated February 3, 2025, the MPs said, “To our dismay and utter surprise, we found that the chairman has deleted the following objectives and dissent notes without informing us and without our consent.”