Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla says Sonia Gandhi’s ‘bulldozed’ remark on Waqf Bill ‘most unfortunate’; BJP seeks apology
- The Waqf Amendment Bill was passed in the Lok Sabha with 288 votes in favor and 232 against, following a heated debate lasting 12 hours.
- Congress MP Sonia Gandhi criticized the passage of the bill as a "brazen assault on the Constitution" and claimed it was a strategy by the BJP to keep society polarized.
- Imran Masood announced plans to legally challenge the bill, stating that the Constitution is being crushed.
- The Congress party and its allies in the INDIA bloc opposed the bill, deeming it unconstitutional and unfair.
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Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla says Sonia Gandhi’s ‘bulldozed’ remark on Waqf Bill ‘most unfortunate’; BJP seeks apology
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju raised the issue and requested the Speaker to provide a ruling on it. The BJP has demanded apology from Sonia Gandhi amid uproar in Lok Sabha on Friday.
Sonia Gandhi after Waqf Bill passed in Lok Sabha: 'It is a brazen assault on Constitution'
Sonia Gandhi, Congress MP, said on Thursday that yesterday, the Waqf Amendment Bill, 2024 was passed in the Lok Sabha, and today it is scheduled to come up in the Rajya Sabha. She said the bill was in effect bulldozed through. “Our party’s position is clear. The Bill is a brazen assault on the Constitution itself. It is very much part of the BJP’s deliberate strategy to keep our society in a state of permanent polarisation,” she said. Apart from…
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