PM Narendra Modi said that through the new law, the sacred spirit of Waqf will be respected, and the poor and Pasmanda families of the Muslim society, Muslim women and children will get their rights
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched a multi-pronged attack on the Congress, cornering it for Muslim appeasement and objecting to the new Waqf law, and targeting it for price hikes in Karnataka and clearing forests in Telangana.
Modi laid out a full defence of the new Waqf law as well, before the Supreme Court hears a clutch of petitions against it this week.
Modi said that through the new law, the sacred spirit of Waqf will be respected, and the poor and Pasmanda families of the Muslim society, Muslim women, especially widows, and children will get their rights. “And this is what Babasaheb Ambedkar has given us the task of doing in the spirit of the Constitution. This is the real spirit, this is real social justice," Modi said. He said the 2013 law passed by UPA benefited only a handful of land mafia, and the land of Dalits, backward people, tribals, and widows was looted.
“After the change in the Waqf law, this looting of the poor is going to stop. And the most important thing is that we have done a very responsible, important work. We have made another provision in this Waqf law. Now under the new law, this Waqf Board will not be able to touch any tribal’s land, his house, his property in any corner of India," Modi said, saying the 2013 amendments by the UPA
2025-04-15 By
Anushka Tripathi