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Chennai: The President of Manithaneya Makkal Katchi (MMK), MLA Prof. M.H. Jawahirullah, has criticized the Indian Supreme Court\u2019s interim judgment on the Waqf (Amendment) Act 2025, calling it a verdict that endorses harmful amendments while failing to provide complete constitutional protection.<\/p>\n
According to Kashmir Media Service, Prof. Jawahirullah, in a press statement, said the BJP government had introduced 44 formal amendments to the Waqf Act in Parliament\u2014comprising 33 insertions, 45 substitutions, and 37 deletions, amounting to a total of 115 changes. Yet, he argued, the apex court has selectively stayed only a few provisions, leaving most \u201cregressive and unconstitutional\u201d amendments untouched.<\/p>\n
Expressing concern over non-Muslim representation, the MMK chief strongly objected to the court\u2019s ruling that allows up to four non-Muslims in the 22-member Central Waqf Council and up to three non-Muslims in the 11-member State Waqf Boards. \u201cIf outsiders to the Hindu or Sikh faiths cannot serve on their respective boards, mandating non-Muslims on Waqf Boards is discriminatory,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Prof. Jawahirullah also highlighted that the court failed to address the deletion of three critical provisions from the original Act:<\/p>\n
Section 104 \u2013 which allowed non-Muslims to create Waqf.
\nSection 107 \u2013 which exempted recovery of encroached Waqf properties from the Limitation Act, 1963.
\nSection 108 \u2013 concerning special provisions for evacuee Waqf properties.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe failure to reinstate Sections 107 and 108 indirectly facilitates hostile state governments in seizing Waqf properties,\u201d he cautioned.<\/p>\n
Calling the Waqf (Amendment) Act 2025 a deliberate conspiracy to weaken and usurp Waqf properties, Prof. Jawahirullah demanded its full repeal and the reinstatement of the Waqf Act 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chennai: The President of Manithaneya Makkal Katchi (MMK), MLA Prof. M.H. Jawahirullah, has criticized the Indian Supreme Court\u2019s interim judgment on the Waqf (Amendment) Act 2025, calling it a verdict that endorses harmful amendments while failing to provide complete constitutional protection. According to Kashmir Media Service, Prof. Jawahirullah, in a press statement, said the BJP …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":183740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/09\/8.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183741,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183738\/revisions\/183741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}