In a high-voltage panel discussion aired on ABP News, tensions flared over the BJP's evolving stance on the Muslim welfare bill. The debate featured a diverse panel including Mufti Sammun Khasfi (Uttarakhand Madrasa Board), Shalini Ali (Mahila Pramukh, MRM), Samajwadi Party spokesperson Dr. Dharmendra Yadav, and Muslim scholars Faziel Ahmad and Haze Khan.Dr. Dharmendra Yadav fiercely criticized the BJP, accusing the party of ideological double standards and selective concern for Muslim interests. He invoked poet Dr. Bashir Badr’s lines — "Yaaron ki mohabbat ka yaqeen kar liya maine, phoolon mein chhupaya hua khanjar nahi dekha" — to highlight perceived hypocrisy in BJP's outreach.Yadav questioned how the BJP, which supported the bill in 1995 under leaders like LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, and Sushma Swaraj, now appears inconsistent. He pointed out that the 2014 BJP manifesto had promised to remove illegal encroachments, yet current parliamentary actions contradict that stance. The narrow margin in the recent vote has only fueled doubts, with Yadav predicting judicial intervention ahead.The debate underscored deep divides between parties and revealed growing public skepticism about the BJP’s long-term political intent regarding minority welfare.
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00:00We are joined by the panel of special guests in the studio.
00:06Mufti Samoon Qaspi, the chairperson of the Uttarakhand Madrasa Board is with us in the studio.
00:11Shalini Ali, the female head of the MRM is joining us.
00:14Apart from her, we have Dr Dharmendra Yadav, a member of the Samajwadi Party, with us in the studio.
00:19Fazil Ahmed, a Muslim scholar, is joining us in this discussion.
00:22Hazir Khan is also a Muslim scholar. He is also with us in this discussion.
00:26We have two political guests with us in the ABP News Agenda Show.
00:32Let me introduce them to you.
00:34We have with us the Congress spokesman Mahima Singh and the BJP spokesman Pradeep Bhandari.
00:40Welcome both of you.
00:41I am going to start with Pradeep Bhandari.
00:43Mr. Pradeep, the path to becoming a law is clear.
00:47But the question of opposition is still unanswered.
00:51Look, the opposition is doing a political experiment.
00:59And it is coming with the same mentality when during the time of Shah Bano,
01:03the Supreme Court gave a historic judgment on the Muslim women's side.
01:08But at that time, the Congress government overturned that judgment during the time of Rajiv Gandhi.
01:13This is the same mentality that did not openly support the Triple Talaq Bill.
01:18So today, there are two groups.
01:20One is the Muslim community, Christian community, and the deprived community.
01:24All those people who believe in the constitution and want to provide their rights to the poor.
01:30Versus those people who are backing a builder mafia.
01:34In which the Congress party comes first.
01:36Mr. Romana, a big thing is that Rahul Gandhi of the Congress party has been an MP from Kerala.
01:42And now Priyanka Wadra is an MP from Kerala.
01:45The Christian community in Kerala has been the most affected by the overturning of the Waqf Board.
01:51I am surprised that neither Priyanka Wadra nor Rahul Gandhi said anything about it.
01:57And if we look at any parliamentary debate historically,
02:01whether it was during the time of Sitaram Kesari in the 1990s,
02:04or even in 2013, in Dabeshwar, every person said that
02:08everyone wanted transparency in the Waqf Board.
02:12So if today the poor are getting their rights, transparency is happening,
02:16and accountability for the constitution is increasing,
02:19then the Congress party is irritated by this.
02:21Because the Congress party does not back the poor Muslims,
02:25does not back the Christian community, does not back the deprived people.
02:28It just wants to spread lies.
02:29I will do an open challenge on your show again.
02:31Without talking about here and there,
02:33can the Congress party tell what is the specific clause-wise objection of it?
02:38What is the specific objection of it?
02:39It thinks that the rights will be snatched.
02:41Mahima Singh ji,
02:42the hope that the government has brought for the upliftment of the backward Muslim community,
02:49with this hope, why is the Congress party so hopeless?
02:55Jai Hind.
02:56Romana ji, you just used the word upliftment.
03:00So I remembered these lines of Dr. Bashir Badr,
03:03that I have believed in the love of my friends.
03:07I have believed in the love of my friends.
03:10I have not seen the dagger hidden in the flowers.
03:13So the spokesperson of the BJP who was speaking just now,
03:16the Muslim accusation that the BJP has been putting on others,
03:21today after hearing about the Muslim interest,
03:24not only we are surprised,
03:26the BJP's own supporters are also surprised.
03:29The people sitting inside the BJP are also surprised.
03:32But they know,
03:33the people who have hidden the dagger of bankruptcy in the back of the country,
03:37the people who have hidden the dagger of agriculture in the back of the country for the farmers,
03:47even at that time they gave elections,
03:50that read it,
03:51read it,
03:52read the clause,
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04:34that he has decided to go on a second journey of 2025
04:38which he is showing double-mindedness
04:41this is the truth of this bill
04:43in 1995, there were 7 members of this bill
04:45LK Advani, Murali Manohar Joshi, Sushma Swaraj
04:50and after that in 2014, in their manifesto, it was written by Romana ji
04:55that we will get the illegal captives released on Waqf
05:00and today, the people who promised Waqf encroachments in their manifesto in 2014
05:06today in Lok Sabha and Rajas Sabha, I am seeing on your screen
05:10just see the difference between the opposition and the opposition
05:13that how many votes have been cast in support of this and how many have been cast against it
05:17there is a huge difference
05:19and this huge difference will be erased by the judiciary very soon
05:24because these people, some of them
05:26No, Mahima ji, but what do you have to say about this bill
05:30say something about it
05:32from 1995 to 2013, all the amendments that were made
05:36why were the BJP with those amendments
05:38now this argument doesn't last
05:40because then it was your government
05:42and under your government, that bill was passed