The Congress Party plans to legally challenge the Waqf-e-Jadid amendment bill in the Supreme Court. Imran Masood, Congress MP from Saharanpur, states the bill violates the right to equality guaranteed by the Constitution. The bill, which allows non-Muslims to be part of Waqf boards, has been passed in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha despite opposition.
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00:00More news coming in. The Congress party is to move Supreme Court against the
00:04Waqf Bill. Congress says will legally challenge the Waqf Bill, will approach the
00:09Supreme Court against Waqf Amendment Bill, says Imran Masood, Congress MP from
00:14Saharanpur. Listen to what he said.
00:22Waqf Amendment Bill, first Lok Sabha, then JPC and then JPC's recommendations
00:28and then Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and then the law.
00:33But what will happen to the law? This is the question that is being raised because
00:37there is a new strategy of opposition. Imran Masood is here to talk exclusively.
00:42Imran Masood, I am sorry, you are the MP from Saharanpur.
00:45And you opposed the bill in the Sadan. But the question is,
00:51your strategy that you made in JPC, failed in the Sadan.
00:56You were successful in passing the bill in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.
01:01What is the way forward?
01:02Look, it is a game of numbers. They have the numbers. They bulldozed it.
01:08But the Constitution gives the right to equality. And when it gives the right to equality,
01:14then why is there oppression and tyranny with us? All the boards, the shrine boards,
01:22or the boards of different religions, all have the restriction that no one
01:28other than that religion will be a member. But did you insist on it or not?
01:34The work board of the state will also have a majority of non-Muslims.
01:40And the central work council will also have a majority.
01:44The government gives the reason that we should keep an eye on it.
01:48If we keep an eye on it, then there is already the Alpsankhak department.
01:52You could have already kept an eye on it. But through the work board, the rituals,
01:58now if I say that I want to be a member of a non-Muslim board,
02:06then I cannot do those rituals, nor do I know them.
02:10And I had said the basic thing that no one other than a Muslim,
02:14a non-Muslim will not be able to understand the difference between paki and napaki.
02:18So how will he understand Waqf? Waqf is a very fine line,
02:22which has come out of Hibah in Chapter 11 of the Muslim Personal Law.
02:28It has come out of Hibah. To understand it, it is not that no one in non-Muslim
02:34will be able to understand it. But to understand it, it is a very long process.
02:39The Railway Department has left the Railway Department.
02:43I am talking about the right to equality that the constitution has given.
02:49You have bulldozed it. You have taken the name of the tribals
02:53and tried to create a narrative. The tribals were not donating land.
03:00But one tribe that lives in Lakshadweep, all of them are Muslims.
03:07The member of parliament there is a Muslim.
03:09You have stopped them from doing their religious work.
03:13This Waqf is our religious practice. You have stopped the people of Lakshadweep.
03:18So this has been completely bulldozed on us. Our rights have been violated.
03:25And the thing that is said again and again, that you have not done anything for the Waqf Board.
03:33After your law, a lot of our land, our properties will lose our rights.
03:40So there is no other way for that other than the court. Will you go to the court?
03:43You will go to the court. You are clarifying that after the law is passed,
03:48Imran Masood or any other big delegation will take the path of the Supreme Court.
03:53Tell me one more thing. What other way do we have?
03:57If this is how it will be bulldozed on the basis of numbers,
04:00then it is the responsibility of the Supreme Court to protect the constitution.
04:04The custodian of the constitution is the Supreme Court.
04:06So we have to see how the Supreme Court has been done,
04:10which we will have legal means because I am not a law-abiding person.
04:14So in this, by consulting everyone, by consulting everyone, then the steps will be taken forward.
04:19But finally, sir, the government will say that when you lost politically,
04:23the number game did not stay with you in the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha,
04:26so now you are at the door of the Supreme Court.
04:29In democracy, do those people lose the right to live who do not agree with your ideas?
04:36Did Congress come with 400 seats, so did Congress bulldoze the rights of others?
04:43No. The beauty of democracy is that you fight till the elections,
04:47but you have to maintain the right to equality.
04:50The constitution has given us the right to equality.