NEW DELHI: Karnataka’s home minister, G Parameshwara, announced that all district deputy commissioners have been instructed to cease issuing eviction notices to farmers under the Waqf Act, treating revenue records as the final authority on land ownership. “The chief minister has directed all deputy commissioners to withdraw any such notices or letters. The matter is…
NEW DELHI: The Opposition led by the Congress party on Thursday launched a fierce protest against the Modi 3.0 government’s proposal to amend the Wafq Boards Act. As minority and parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju sought to table the Bill to amend the Waqf Act, Congress’s KC Venugopal disrupted the proceedings and built the case…
BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi NEW DELHI: Former minority affairs minister and senior BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has urged the Waqf system to move beyond its “touch-me-not” syndrome, following the government’s plan to introduce a Bill to amend the 1995 law governing Waqf boards. This amendment aims to ensure more accountability and transparency in…
NEW DELHI: The proposed amendments to the Waqf Act will include, judicial scrutiny to determine whether a property is a waqf asset and mandatory provision of registration of properties with district collectors for their actual valuation. Another major proposed change will to broad-base the composition of the Central Waqf Council and waqf boards in states…
