PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Friday mentioned she has written to the management of NDA allies JD(U) and TDP, urging them to assist cease the proposed Waqf (Modification) Invoice that’s more likely to be tabled within the Funds Session of Parliament.
This comes a day after Nationwide Convention’s Srinagar MP Aga Ruhullah Mehdi mentioned he’ll meet and make a “closing enchantment” to JD(U) and TDP MPs concerning the issues of the Muslim neighborhood over the proposed amendments.
In her letter to JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar and TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu, the previous J&Ok chief minister mentioned the “essence” of Mahatma Gandhi’s imaginative and prescient for India is being “altered, undermining the secular material that binds this nation collectively”. She urged the 2 leaders to intervene and forestall the Invoice from being handed in Parliament.
“You could have at all times been a staunch believer in our Structure and have persistently championed the spirit of Ganga-Jamuni brotherhood. At this time, as key members of the NDA, you might be uniquely positioned to affect this matter and halt this onslaught,” she wrote.
She mentioned the proposed Waqf (Modification) Invoice comes at a time when, for the previous decade, “Muslims have been systematically disenfranchised, disempowered, and marginalised politically, socially, and economically”. She additionally highlighted the “utter disregard” for the misgivings raised by the Opposition events within the type of dissent notes submitted to the joint committee on the Invoice. “The train of session appears farcical with none real efforts to seek the advice of the neighborhood most affected by this unconstitutional, unconscionable, and authoritarian Invoice.”
She mentioned although the Invoice has been “dressed as a reform”, its true goal is to “undermine the very basis of the Waqf Act: to guard and protect properties devoted to the social and financial upliftment of Muslims for spiritual and charitable functions”.
Mufti mentioned that every proposed modification to the Invoice not solely contradicts the pursuits of the Muslim neighborhood but additionally constitutes a direct assault on the elemental rights assured by the Structure. “This deeply divisive Invoice is a transparent manifestation of the majoritarianism that has fuelled bigotry and the marginalisation of Muslims since 2014. It strikes on the coronary heart of the very thought of India, an India that thrives on its core values of variety, pluralism, and peaceable coexistence.”
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“I sincerely urge you to intervene and forestall this Invoice from inflicting injury to our nationwide unity and communal concord,” she wrote.
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