National meeting on submitting petitions in SC; muttahida majlis-e-ulema to support efforts of the Muslim Personal Law Commission in all India
The budget meeting of the Congress was adjourned by North Carolina and the opposition parties, the People’s Democratic Party and the People’s Congress legislators continued to demand discussions and resolutions on the WAQF Act. Spokesman Abdul Rahim, also from North Carolina (NC), refused to allow discussion or resolution to reiterate that “action is conquest.” The BJP opposes discussion of the bill.
Shortly after the House of Representatives recession, BJP and PDP legislators verbally fought with AAM AADMI party lawmaker Meraj Malik and criticized PDP and BJP. On social media, ugly scenes of fighting scenes outside the conference hall and complex are all the rage on social media. Later that day, J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said the Speaker tried to make the members understand and that the members were not wrong.
Abdullah said: “Johnson & Johnson’s large population and the country is angry with the WAQF Act. They believe the government is interfering in its religious affairs… Now, the party has decided to bring the matter to the court for the court to make the decision.” J&K NC spokesman Tanvir Sadiq further stated that this violates the basic constitutional protections stipulated in Articles 14, 15, 21, 25, 26, 29 and 300A.
J&K CM also targeted the PDP, criticizing his photos taken with Union Minister Kiren Rijiju and NC President Farooq Abdullah.
Abdullah added: “Those who promoted the BJP to J&K did not apologize for the killings in 2016 because I had a chance to run into the BJP minister,” Abdullah added, “In the BJP circle, they talked about milk and toffee and ruined J&K. The fusion of over 50 religious institutions in J&K and Ladakh led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and E Ulema held a meeting in Srinagar and decided to support the WAQF Law Commission on the All India Muslim Individual Law. They also decided to read out a joint resolution on the bill in a Friday prayer held in the mosques in J&K and Ladakh on April 11. However, Mirwaz was not allowed to attend the meeting and was arrested. “It is strange that even if this serious issue was discussed and peacefully responded by Muslim scholars and religious institutions in this Muslim majority area, it was banned,” Mirwaz said.
