Hindutva, BJP leaders demand repeal of Waqf laws

BJP MLA organizes protest rally against Waqf laws, calling for repeal to protect Hindu interests and Constitution.

BJP MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal organised a protest rally in Vijayapura on Tuesday against laws regulating Waqf property in the country.

At the rally organised on the Sri Siddeshwar Swamy Temple premises, Hindutva organisation leaders Mithun Chakravarti Sulibele and BJP MLC C.T. Ravi and others spoke.

Most of the speakers sought a repeal of the Waqf Act 1995 and other similar laws.

“The Waqf Act needs to be repealed as it amounts to Land Jihad. Vested interests are trying to destroy Hindus, using tools like Love Jihad and Halal foods. It is not a modern law. It is a law enacted by the medieval era sultans to protect their property. Successive Congress governments have retained that discriminatory law. We need to fight against it and create awareness about it among the common people,” Mr. Ravi said.

“The Congress does not represent Constitutional values. It only represents the mindset of medieval kings like Ghori and Ghazni. We need to tell them to wake up as the era of the sultans is over and we need modern laws,” he said.

He said that officers and some Muslim leaders have conspired to illegally divert land owned by Hindu farmers into Waqf property. “Earlier Congress governments at the Centre and now in the State have been covering up such illegalities,” he said.

“We need to root out the Congress from this country. For, there will be no Hindus in this country if the Congress continues to exist,” he said.