Legal Battle Over Waqf Amendment Bill Intensifies: Owaisi and Javed Move Supreme Court
New Delhi (The Uttam Hindu): After the Waqf Amendment Bill was passed in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, an alert has been issued in the entire state regarding Friday prayers. In this sequence, marches are being taken out in front of religious places in UP's capital Lucknow, Ghaziabad, Rae Bareli and Sambhal. Also, a large number of police personnel are deployed. Now, the Waqf Amendment Bill passed by the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha has been challenged in the country's biggest court.
AIMIM President and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi has approached the Supreme Court against the Waqf Amendment Bill. Owaisi has filed a petition against this amendment bill in the country's highest court. Before Owaisi, Bihar Congress MP Mohammad Javed has filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the Waqf Amendment Bill. So far two petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court against the Waqf Bill. After the bill was passed by the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, Congress MP Jairam Ramesh had said that Congress will go to the Supreme Court. Tamil Nadu's DMK had also talked about filing a petition. Now Congress MP Mohammad Javed has presented the first petition against the Waqf Bill.
The petition also states that the structure of the Waqf Board and the Central Waqf Council has been amended to make it mandatory to include non-Muslim members in the Waqf administrative bodies. Doing this is an unreasonable interference in religious governance. In contrast, Hindu religious trusts are managed exclusively by Hindus under various state acts. Javed has said in the petition that this selective intervention has been done without imposing similar conditions on other religious institutions. Hence this is a unilateral and arbitrary classification. This is a direct violation of Articles 14 and 15. Let us tell you that Congress MP Mohammad Javed is the Congress Party Whip in the Lok Sabha. He was also a member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill 2024.
