Waqf bill: Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind urges TDP, JD(U) to consider sentiments of Muslims
N Chandrababu Naidu is a person of a ‘secular mindset’ and ‘will not let a bill that harms Muslims’ to be implemented, a Telugu Desam Party leader said.
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The Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind on Sunday urged Telugu Desam Party leader N Chandrababu Naidu and Janata Dal (United)’s Nitish Kumar to consider sentiments of the Muslim community while deciding on support for the Waqf Amendment Bill, PTI reported.
If the bill is passed in Parliament, the “two crutches” supporting the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Union government will not be able to escape the responsibility, the Muslim organisation’s chief Maulana Arshad Madani said at the Save Constitution Convention event in New Delhi.
The “two crutches” remark was a reference to the Telugu Desam Party and the Janata Dal (United) that are part of the National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre.
“If the Waqf Bill is passed ignoring the emotions of the Muslims, it would be as much a responsibility of the crutches as it would be of other powers at the Centre,” PTI quoted Madani as saying.
“People of the country defeated the BJP,” Madani said. “They did not accept their policies. This government is dependent on two crutches: a strong one is Chandrababu and the other is Bihar’s Nitish Kumar.”
Naidu is chief minister of Andhra Pradesh and Kumar of Bihar.
The 44 amendments in the bill, tabled in Parliament in August, propose to curb the authority of waqf boards, allow greater control by the...
