‘Waqf Bill To Humiliate Muslims’: Owaisi Tears Bill Copy In Lok Sabha — Watch

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi staged a symbolic protest against the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025 during the debate on the legistion in Lok Sabha. 

Participating in the late-night debate on the contentious Bill on Wednesday, the Hyderabad MP referred to an example of Mahatma Gandhi during his stay in South Africa. 

If one reads history, one would find what Mahatma Gandhi had said about the laws of white South Africa, he said. 

“Mahatma Gandhi had said ‘My conscience doesn’t accept this’ and he tore it up,” Owaisi said. “Like Gandhi, I am also tearing up this law,” the Hyderabad MP said as he teared up the copy of the Waqf Bill in symbolic protest. 

लोकसभा में Waqf Amendment Bill पर मेरी स्पीच। इस सरकार ने मुसलमानों पर ऐलान ए जंग कर दिया है।pic.twitter.com/nh6IIiPymp

— Asaduddin Owaisi (@asadowaisi) April 2, 2025

“This is unconstitutional. The BJP wants to create divisiveness in this country in the name of temples and mosques. I condemn this and I request you to accept the 10 amendments,” he added.

Owaisi also claimed that Bill aimed to humiliate and reduce Muslims to a second-class citizen. 

“Yeh Bill ka maqsad sirf muslamanon ko zaleel aur ruswa karna hai, musalmanon ko dusre darje ka shehri banane ka inka maksad hai (The objective of this bill is to insult and humiliate Muslims and make Muslims second-class citizens).

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‘Unconstitution Thing’: Jagdambika Pal 

Bharatiya Janata Party MP and Joint Parliamentary Committee chief Jagdambika Pal criticised Hyderabad MP for his action accusing him of doing the “unconstitutional thing”.

“Asasuddin Owaisi calls the bill unconstitutional, but he has done the unconstitutional thing by tearing up the bill…I want to ask him why he tore the bill?” he asked.

Pal thanked the government and all members saying it was the first time that the government “accepted all of this JPC’s recommendations,” adding “this is not an ordinary thing.”