The All India Muslim Private Legislation Board (AIMPLB), which has launched a nationwide marketing campaign towards the Waqf (Modification) Act, 2025, has determined to remain cautious and undertake a special technique within the states run by the BJP and its allies.
The choice comes days after its large ‘Save Waqf, Save Structure’ public assembly, held with the help of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), in Hyderabad final Sunday. The assembly was attended by members of a number of political events, together with the Congress, Bharat Rashtra Samithi, YSR Congress Occasion and the DMK, apart from 1000’s of individuals.
The primary section of the Save Waqf marketing campaign is scheduled to conclude on July 13 at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi. Earlier than that, the AIMPLB will maintain programmes at state and district stage to “create consciousness” in regards to the new legislation and mount stress on the federal government to repeal it.
The Board has issued a set of tips to its items in states and districts relating to the format of the marketing campaign and the precautions to be taken. The primary guideline is to make sure that the programme is held “peacefully in each scenario”.
“The second guideline states that in states the place the governments are non-cooperative and the place the scenario isn’t conducive for us, we don’t have to carry any public rally and demonstration on the roads,” stated SQR Ilyas, spokesperson, AIMPLB.
The apprehension is that undesirable individuals may enter the rallies and programmes on the streets to create disturbances. “Apprehension can also be as a result of there’s sturdy resentment within the individuals after the passage of the Invoice in Parliament,” he stated.
Ilyas confirmed that “non-cooperative” state governments are states run by the BJP and its allies. He, nevertheless, stated not all BJP-ruled states have been anticipated to be “non-cooperative”.
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In BJP and allies-ruled states, the board will maintain indoor programmes — just like the one carried out at Talkatora Stadium in Delhi final week — and also will organise round-table conferences, corridor conferences and interactive classes of smaller gatherings. On Sunday, a programme was scheduled in Parbhani in Maharashtra.
One other guideline cautions the organisers to take care of calm if “infamous components” attempt to provoke them throughout the programme. The Board has directed that the programmes shouldn’t be attended by solely Muslims; they need to see participation of key faces from the opposite non secular communities too who help the Board in its struggle towards the legislation.
“The message we’re giving is that we’re opposing this legislation as a result of it’s discriminatory and is towards the constitutional elementary rights,” the AIMPLB spokesperson stated.
In states with “conducive ambiance”, they’ll organise public rallies and human chain formations too, stated Ilyas.
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The Board will even ship memoranda to the President with an attraction to repeal the Waqf legislation. It has given a name for holding a blackout protest — Batti Gul — at 9 pm on April 30, when lights might be turned off for quarter-hour in households and industrial institutions throughout the nation.
“The organisers have been requested to stay to the rules issued by the AIMPLB,” Ilyas stated.
The Board had suspended the marketing campaign for 3 days in view of the Pahalgam terror assault on April 22. It resumed it on Sunday, with an added directive to the individuals to sentence the fear assault and pay tributes to these killed in it in each programme.
