Team Clarion
LUCKNOW – Organisations like Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal are terror outfits and they should be banned, an influential cleric and head of Ittehad-e-Millat Council (IMC), Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan, has said.
Speaking at a meeting against the Waqf Board Amendment Bill 2024, Raza Khan said, “RSS is a terrorist organisation and should be banned if the government wants peace in the country. I say from the open stage that Vishva Hindu Parishad, Bajrang Dal are also terrorist organisations and should be banned.”
Wednesday’s meeting in the Uttar Pradesh capital was called by All India Mohammadi Mission president Babar Ashraf. The meeting also decided to launch a movement named ‘Waqf Virasat Bachao Tehreek’ for the protection of the waqf properties in the country.
At the meeting, attended by several Shia, Sunni religious leaders, Raza Khan appealed to the people to come out on the streets in large numbers to protest against the amendment.
The Waqf Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha in August. After a hue and cry from the opposition the bill has been referred to a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC). The bill aims to amend the law governing Waqf boards and aims to rename the Waqf Act, 1995, as the Unified Waqf Management, Empowerment, Efficiency and Development Act, 1995.
