Rallies and dharna organized in many cities against the amendment of the Center in the Waqf Act

New Delhi: The Central Government has amended the Waqf Act, which has also been approved by the President after Parliament and its implementation process is going on. In such a situation, there has been a storm of protest against the amendment of this Waqf Act. After Friday’s prayers, protests against the amendment of the Waqf Act took place in many cities. This includes Mumbai, Kolkata, Patna, Lucknow, Jaipur etc. especially. Many people took to the streets in these cities and demonstrated with posters like “We reject the Waqf Bill”.

In Kolkata, students of Aliah University took to the streets with posters, they had big banners in their hands, which wrote, “We strongly oppose the amendment of the Waqf Act.” Constitutional rights cannot be denied. Protests were also seen in Siliguri, Bengal. Muslim leaders took out rallies in cities like Lucknow, Jaipur, Patna etc., in which a large number of people participated. These leaders claimed that if the amendments made in the Waqf Act were not withdrawn, they would fast unto death.

People gathered outside the Chishti Hindustani Mosque in Mumbai and protested. Many Muslims protested by tying black strips on their hands during the Namaz. AIMIM leader Waris Pathan and other activists also joined the protests in Mumbai. The protesters avoided raising slogans, but protested with posters in their hands. A similar protest was seen in Srinagar. The PDP took out a rally in Srinagar and said that the amendments made in the law are not acceptable to the Muslims as they are harming them.

Many Muslims took to the streets in Imphal, violence affected Manipur and demanded to revoke recent amendments in the law. Protests were observed after Friday prayers near Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad, Telangana. At the same time, Muslims also staged a sit -in near Jama Masjid in Darul Shifa. People also took to the streets in Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, Jaipur in Rajasthan and Patna in Bihar. In some posters, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was criticized. Nitish Kumar’s JD (U) supported the bill. While the protests in some cities had no effect. More than 10 petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court against the amendment of the Waqf Act. Which can be heard on 16 April.

The protests first started in West Bengal, where Trinamool Congress workers and Muslim organizations have been protesting for several days. In such a situation, Trinamool Congress leader and minister Siddikullah Chaudhary while addressing the huge rally of Jamiat-e-Ulema Hind held at Ramlila Maidan in Kolkata said that we can stop Kolkata by jamming traffic, we can easily gather two thousand people in 50 places and jam traffic. We have not done anything like this yet, but we are definitely planning to do so. Our strategy is to start from the districts. Later we will deploy 10,000–10,000 people at 50 places in Kolkata. Those who do not have any work will come and sit and eat dry grapes, jaggery and sweets. However, the video of this statement was later broadcast on social media by BJP leaders.