The issue will be debated in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
Kiren Rijiju, Minister of Minority Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs, announced that the Lok Sabha’s Business Advisory Committee (BAC) had cleared an eight-hour debate.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is hopeful of receiving backing from important allies.
The Waqf (Amendment) Bill’s supporters Party leaders, including Lok Janshakti Party (RV) and Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United), have denied opposition claims that the Waqf Amendment Bill violates minority rights. “Our party has already met representatives of the Muslim Personal Law Board, Waqf Board, and various other religious leaders, and assured them that their concerns will be relayed to the government and addressed,” stated a senior leader of the JD(U).
stances of the party
The Waqf Bill position of the TDP and Shiv Sena The bill has also received support from the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), which claims that it will not infringe on the rights of Muslims. TDP spokesperson Prem Kumar Jain said, “Our party will support it. Chandrababu Naidu has already stated that we will work in the Muslim community’s best interests. In support of the government’s position, the Shiv Sena has issued a three-line whip to all of its Lok Sabha MPs requiring them to be present in the House.
Strategy of opposition
The united opposition against Waqf Bill Similarly, on the opposition side, Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge and other party members have issued whips to ensure their MPs are present in Parliament.
Kharge stated, “All the Opposition parties are united and shall collaborate on the floor of the Parliament.” “We will also participate in voting and discussion… We want to talk about it on Parliament’s floor.”
Congressional numbers Parliamentary support for the Waqf Bill from the NDA In the Lok Sabha, the current NDA has 293 members, with BJP having 240 in the 543-member Lok Sabha.
The TDP and JDU, its key partners, each have 16 and 12 MPs, respectively. With its partners’ numbers, the NDA is anticipated to receive 295 votes, comfortably above the majority mark of 272.
The NDA is also confident in its ability to recruit six nominated members and single-member parties like Asom Gana Parishad and Tamil Mannila Congress.