Waqf Act amended to neutralise changes made by Congress for ‘appeasement’: PM Modi | India News – The Times of India

Prime Minister Narendra Modi NEW DELHI: PM Modi Tuesday aggressively defended the amendments to the Waqf Act, asserting these were necessary to neutralise the changes made by the Congress-led UPA as part of “politics of appeasement“, which primarily served the interests of fundamentalists and land grabbers, and had also led to India’s Partition.“The 2013 changes…

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‘Won’t allow reservations for Muslims as long as there’s a BJP MLA’: Amit Shah in poll-bound Jharkhand | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday labeled Congress an “anti-reservation” party.Addressing a poll rally in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad, the Union home minister vowed to block any efforts to extend reservations to Muslims in a rally in poll-bound Jharkhand.“Congress is an anti-reservation party. They want to end reservations for backward classes and Dalits to…

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