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Waqf Amendment Bill in Parliament Today Live News Updates: A stormy Lok Sabha session is expected today as the Centre re-introduces the contentious Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, today. Union Minority Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju will table the Bill for consideration and passage in the Lower House at noon. The Lok Sabha’s business advisory committee (BAC), which includes leaders from all major parties, chaired by Speaker Om Birla, agreed on an eight-hour debate, which could be extended after taking the sense of the House.
A look back: The Bill was introduced in Parliament last year amid uproar by the Opposition and was subsequently sent to a Joint Committee of Parliament headed by BJP MP Jagadambika Pal for scrutiny. On February 13, the House panel submitted its report, which was approved by the Union Cabinet on February 19. However, Opposition MPs in the panel raised concerns over their proposed amendments being rejected and claimed their dissent notes had been redacted from the report without their knowledge. The panel accepted 14 changes suggested by NDA MPs and is learnt to have rejected all 44 changes proposed by the Opposition members.
Why has the bill received criticism across the country? Some of the most contentious provisions in the Bill include allowing a non-Muslim to become the Chief Executive Officer of the Waqf board, making a provision for at least two non-Muslim members to be appointed by state governments to their state’s Waqf board, giving the District Collector the power to determine if a disputed property is Waqf or belongs to the government, doing away with the concept of “Waqf by user”, mandating that every Waqf property be registered on a central database within six months of the law’s commencement, and removal of the provision that made the tribunal’s decision final.
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