HYDERABAD: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday said the Supreme Court’s interim order would not protect Waqf properties from the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 introduced by the NDA government and that he hopes the apex court would soon pronounce its final verdict on the whole legislation itself.
Observing that the arguments of the petitioners who are opposing the Act are still “very strong”, he said they would be brought before the court when it hears the “validity or the unconstitutionality” of the legislation.
The order delivered by the Supreme Court on Monday was only an interim order, he said.
“In my view and my party’s view, the interim order will not protect Waqf properties from the law the Modi government has made... encroachers will be rewarded, there will be no development in Waqf properties. That’s why we hope the Supreme Court will make efforts to make a final decision as early as possible,” he told reporters.
He alleged that the real purpose of the BJP in making the Act was to ensure that the Waqf mechanism gets weakened. “Their whole idea is that no one should give their property as Waqf,” he said.
Without naming anyone, he claimed an amendment to the Waqf Bill that a trust would not be a Waqf, was brought in “to reward a person who had built his palatial palace on an orphanage”.
KTR welcomes SC order
Meanwhile, BRS working president KT Rama Rao welcomed the Supreme Court’s interim order on the Waqf Amendment Act 2025.
BRS has consistently voiced concerns against the contentious provisions of the Act, which under the guise of progressiveness, propagated polarisation and threatened the communal harmony of our nation, he said in a press statement.
“We fought against the problematic clauses of the Waqf Amendment Act, questioning how one decides who is a Muslim or how a government official can arbitrarily determine ownership of Waqf properties,” said Rama Rao.
BRS always strived to protect the communal fabric of this beautiful nation, prioritising unity and strength over politics, he said and recalled that BRS fought with all its might against the Act’s problematic provisions in Rajya Sabha.
