WAQF amendment Bill is made weapons for political profits: Kharge

New -Delhi, April 3 (IANS). During the discussion in the Rajya Sabha on the WAQF (amendment) Bill, 2025, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said on Thursday that he opposed the bill with full confidence and clarity. The leader of the opposition in the house said that this WAQF Bill is not a general law. This law is made weapons for political profits. It is used by the Modi government to weaken the diversity of the country in a planned way. When this bill was approved late in the Lok Sabha, 288 votes were cast in its favor and 232 votes in the opposition. From this we can recommend that this bill, even after the opposition of different parties, has been randomly brought. Kharge said that the BJP government is talking a lot about the well -being of minorities. Empowerment is done. But the truth is clear from the budget allocation of the five -year minority department of the government. The budget allocation of this Department in FY 2019-20 was Rs 4,700 crore, which found at 2.608 crore in 2023-24. The budget allocation in FY 2022-23 was Rs 2,612 crore, of which the ministry could not spend Rs 1.775 crore. In total, the budget was received over five years, Rs 18.274 Crore, of which 3,574 crore could not be spent. He said the government of India from 2020 has stopped the help of minority students for preparation in Maulana Azad Scholarship, free coaching, UPSC and State Commissions. He said that the legal initiative was taken to independence in 1954 and 1995. In 2013, the law was amended to strengthen the state WAQF directions. During the UPA, two Muslim women were included in the central WAQF in 2013. The BJP itself supported these bills in both times, 1995 and 2013. In 1995, Sikander Bakht also supported in the Rajya Sabha and BJP leaders in the Lok Sabha. He told the ruling party that if empowerment should be done, then doing so in the Hindu society. Give Dalit, Adivazis, Women and Back Take to Temples. Give them equal status. Kharge said: “I am surprised why you want to make changes from the original structure to form, even after all the protests. Why should non-Muslims join their WAQF board? Donate a Hindu in the church?