The lower house of India’s parliament has passed a controversial bill that seeks to change how properties worth billions of dollars donated by Indian Muslims over centuries are governed
The Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024 – which brings in dozens of amendments to an existing law – was passed late on Wednesday night after a heated debate that went on for over 12 hours.
The government says the bill will introduce transparency into the management of waqf, as the properties are called.
But opposition parties and Muslim groups have called it an attempt to weaken the constitutional rights of India’s largest religious minority.
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