Waqf Amendment Bill 2025 Hits Lok Sabha: 8-Hour Debate Set Amid Opposition Protests

Waqf Amendment Bill 2025: The government has introduced the Waqf (Amendment) Bill in the Lok Sabha. There will be an 8-hour discussion on this in the House. The largest opposition party Congress has been given 100 minutes for discussion. The government has resolved to pass this bill, while the opposition is strongly opposing it, calling it unconstitutional. This bill is likely to be discussed in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. There will be eight hours of discussion on this in both the houses.

Opposition parties brainstormed

Opposition parties held a meeting in Parliament House, in which the strategy regarding this bill was discussed. Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge and KC Venugopal, Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav, NCP leader Supriya Sule, Trinamool Congress' Kalyan Banerjee and AAP's Sanjay Singh attended the meeting. DMK's TR Balu, Tiruchi Siva and Kanimozhi, RJD's Manoj Kumar Jha, CPI(M)'s John Brittas, CPI's Sandhosh Kumar P, RSP's NK Premachandran and Vaiko were also present in the meeting.

Waqf Bill 2025 Gets 8 Hours, Opposition Unyielding

The dispute between the state's Waqf Board and land occupants over about 400 acres of land in Kerala's Ernakulam district has kicked up a storm. Trinamool MP Banerjee said, "We will also participate in the discussion and voting. We want to discuss but the BJP does not want to do so. We want to discuss the matter on the floor of Parliament. We want to participate in the voting but the BJP will not let us discuss." RJD MP Jha said that if the BJP-led central government tries to suppress the opposition, it will be forced to withdraw the bill.