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Amit shah on waqf properties: The Waqf Amendment Bill 2025 was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday (April 02, 2025). During the discussion on this, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, while speaking, counted the properties seized by the Waqf Board across the country, and attacked the Congress and said that the Congress gave many properties to Waqf before the 2014 elections.
The Home Minister said, ‘Elections were to be held in 2014, earlier in 2013, the Waqf law was made extreme. Due to this, the Congress government did 123 VVIP property of Delhi Lutyens to give Waqf. At that time the election was at the mouth. The Delhi Waqf Board announced the name of Waqf of Northern Railway.
Amit Shah gave details of assets to Waqf
The Home Minister said that in Himachal Pradesh, he called this property as the property of the Waqf Board and made a mosque on it. In Tamil Nadu, 212 villages with an area of 250 hectares were owned by Waqf. Apart from this, four hundred acres of land in hundreds of years old temple in Tamil Nadu was declared the property of Waqf. A committee report in Karnataka has found that 29 thousand acres of land has been rented for Waqf business. Along with this, between 2001 and 2012, assets worth two lakh crore were given to private institutions on 100 years of lease. In Bengaluru, the High Court had to stop seizing 602 acres of land by falling in the middle.
Amit Shah said that by claiming 1500 acres of land in Honwar village of Vijaypur, Karnataka, it was also captured by the Waqf Board and gave the Five Star Hotel on the land of 500 crores to the Five Star Hotel with a price of 12 thousand rupees every month.
‘Law brought to protect the money of poor Muslims’
He said that some people are saying today that it should not be made and it should not be taken care of, this money is of the poor Muslims of the country, this money is not for the theft of Dhannaseths. The Home Minister said that to stop this situation, the government has brought a law for the Waqf Board, and we are its contractors. He also clarified that we are sitting here in Parliament and the purpose of bringing this law is that the money of poor Muslims of the country can be protected.
‘A lot of lands of Christian community also occupied’
Amit Shah said that some people speak thunderstorms in Parliament for such things, some speak non-understanding and some intentionally speak. He said that these people feel that they will win the election. In another temple, the Waqf Board claimed assets worth Rs 600 crore based on years -old claims. Along with this, the Waqf Board has also claimed on a lot of lands of Christian community. Many dignitaries of Christians are supporting the Waqf Bill. Some people think that by supporting this bill, they will be confirmed their vote bank by getting sympathy for Muslim brothers and sisters.
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