Forward of the national-level Waqf Modification consciousness marketing campaign, BJP nationwide common secretary Dushyant Gautam stated Friday that land free of “unlawful encroachments” can be used to construct PM Awas (housing) for the poor and Muslim girls in Dehradun.
At a workshop for Muslim girls right here, Gautam, who can also be the state in-charge and member of the Central Committee on the Waqf (Modification) Act, 2025, stated that the Modi authorities carried out Article 370 abrogation, triple talaq regulation, and CAA.
The workshop comes at a time when there’s pushback towards the brand new Waqf modification regulation, which amends the idea of “Waqf by person” below the 1995 Waqf regulation. The outdated provision states that properties getting used as Waqf properties will stay Waqf even when the person doesn’t exist.
“The present modification corrects errors made by earlier Congress governments in 1995 and 2013. No anti-national exercise needs to be inspired below the guise of appeasement, and Waqf properties should be used for the real welfare of the poor. As in UP, freed land can be used to construct PM Awas for poor Muslim girls—particularly widows and divorcees—and orphan youngsters. Amenities comparable to hospitals, faculties, and group centres can even be developed on these lands,” he stated.
The BJP has additionally touted provisions in UCC, comparable to ban on polygamy and “halala” as reforms in the direction of empowerment of Muslim girls. Just lately, the federal government appointed Shayaro Bano, the petitioner within the Triple Talaq case, because the vice-president of Uttarakhand Ladies’s Fee.
Bano, initially from the state, was the petitioner within the case after she approached the courtroom in 2016 demanding that the talaq-e-biddat pronounced by her husband be declared as void. She had argued that such a unilateral type of divorce be declared unconstitutional, and that the follow violated the basic rights of Muslim girls.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami stated that the BJP is launching the Waqf Consciousness Marketing campaign with the message, “Solely the poor shall obtain the rights of the poor”. He stated the federal government will guarantee the usage of Waqf properties for the welfare of the “backward Muslim communities”, and ladies. “With out interfering in spiritual issues, each inch of land below the Waqf Board within the state can be reviewed and guarded,” he stated.
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Dhami stated that spiritual freedom is not going to be harmed, and that each inch of Waqf land can be examined. He emphasised that the regulation will profit the poorest Muslims—divorced and widowed girls, orphans, and different underprivileged people. He stated all 5,700 registered Waqf properties in Uttarakhand can be totally verified.
Gautam stated that the BJP believes that the event of the Muslim group is crucial for a developed India, and the Waqf modification regulation is a “milestone” in that path.
In the meantime, Uttarakhand Waqf Board Chairperson Shadab Shams stated that many victims of such actions had been from minority communities themselves.
Uttarakhand Congress spokesperson Garima Dasauni stated that the BJP has not fulfilled their 2014 guarantees.
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“The PM Awas promise can also be considered one of such guarantees, comparable to the 2 crore jobs yearly, bringing the worth of 1 rupee to the worth of 1 greenback, cleansing Ganga and Yamuna. This new promise can even stay a promise just like the others. Minority communities ought to get this straight that BJP is attempting to entice them. No matter they are saying in defence of the Waqf modification is a hoax,” she stated.
This comes when the state is witnessing a persistent crackdown on “unrecognised” madrasas, with the Dhami authorities sealing over 170 establishments. It additionally comes at a time when the Supreme Courtroom is listening to appeals towards the Waqf regulation.
Amid anti-Waqf regulation protests, the BJP has introduced a nationwide “consciousness marketing campaign” from April 20 to Could 5 – the SC’s subsequent listening to within the Waqf regulation case.