A senior chief of Manipur’s ruling Nationwide Folks’s Occasion (NPP), an NDA ally, Tuesday mentioned he’ll method the Supreme Courtroom in opposition to the Waqf Modification Act. This got here on a day the state’s minority Muslim neighborhood, the Meitei Pangals, held the most recent spherical of protests in opposition to the regulation in a number of valley districts.
Kshetrigao MLA Sheikh Noorul Hassan, who’s the chief of the NPP legislature social gathering, condemned the Union authorities for passing the Invoice “with out consulting stakeholders”. “The Waqf Modification Act is unjust and deeply insensitive to the feelings of the Muslim neighborhood. It ought to be repealed instantly to revive belief and foster communal concord,” he mentioned at a press convention.
The MLA introduced he would file a petition within the Supreme Courtroom in opposition to the Act.
On Tuesday, Meitei Pangal teams organised protests in Imphal East, Thoubal and Bishnupur districts. Greater than 5,000 demonstrators are learnt to have marched in Bishnupur district’s Kwakta city.
One of many protesters, Abdul Nasir, an educationist, mentioned the regulation is an try and usurp community-owned Waqf properties handed down by generations.
In Imphal East, a whole bunch of individuals fashioned a human chain. Demanding the regulation’s repeal, the protestors warned that it might destabilize communal concord within the area, which has been roiled by ethnic strife since Could 2023.
On Sunday, too, protests had been held in several components of the Imphal Valley in opposition to the Act, with the home of BJP Minority Morcha Manipur president and Meitei Pangal chief Asker Ali’s home in Thoubal district set on fireplace by a mob for remarks supporting the laws.
The BJP chief had posted on social media supporting the passing of the Waqf Invoice. Following the arson, prohibitory orders had been imposed in Thoubal’s Lilong Meeting constituency.
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