When 'House becomes deaf', one has to turn to SC, says MP
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New Delhi: As the issue of the Waqf Bill debate is burning across the country and particularly in Parliament, an independent MP from Bihar’s Purnia, Pappu Yadav, said on Friday that when the Parliament becomes deaf and dumb, there is no option left but the Supreme Court. Yadav’s statement comes after AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi moved to the Supreme Court challenging the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025, Asian News International reported.
Yadav told ANI that the Supreme Court defines the Constitution and there is nothing above it. When the streets become empty, and the House becomes deaf and dumb, there is no option left except the Supreme Court, he said, adding that when the Constitution is violated, anyone can go to the top Court.
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen Chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi and Congress Lok Sabha MP Mohammed Jawed separately moved the Supreme Court against the Waqf Amendment Bill 2025.
Owaisi contented in his plea that the amended Bill "irreversibly dilutes" the statutory protections afforded to Waqfs and their regulatory framework while conferring undue advantage upon other stakeholders and interest groups, undermining years of progress, and setting back Waqf management by several decades, according to The Free Press Journal.
"The amendment bill also takes away from Waqfs various protections that were accorded to Waqfs and Hindu, Jain, and Sikh religious and charitable endowments alike. This diminishing of the protection given to Waqfs while retaining them for religious and charitable endowments of other religions constitutes hostile discrimination against Muslims and violates Articles 14 and 15 of the Constitution, which prohibit discrimination on the grounds of religion," the plea read.