Wakf Amendment Bill: Passed in Lok Sabha by 288 votes against 232, TDP-JDU supported, Centre hit many targets with one arrow

New Delhi. Wakf Amendment Bill has been passed in Lok Sabha. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla announced this at 1.56 am. 288 votes were cast in favour of the bill, while 232 votes were cast against it. Now it will be sent to Rajya Sabha. BJP’s allies openly supported this bill. Whereas, the opposition opposed the bill. Union Minister Kiren Rijiju said that there is no place in the world safer than India for minorities and they are safe because the majority is completely secular. Responding to the nearly 12-hour debate on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill-2025, Union Minority Affairs Minister Rijiju said that even small minority communities like Parsis are safe in India and all minorities live here with pride.

During the debate on the bill, Amit Shah said in the Lok Sabha that we have not tampered with the Waqf. Amendments have been made for the Waqf Board and Waqf Council. Its functioning is administrative. The Waqf Board does not have to do religious activities. We are not even touching the Mutawalli. At the same time, Asaduddin Owaisi opposed the Waqf Bill in Parliament and said that it is a violation of Articles 25, 26. He further said that the Waqf Bill is injustice to Muslims.

With the passing of the bill, BJP has hit 6 targets with one step. In fact, the opposition has been showing itself as the political champion of secularism by wearing the glasses of secularism for a long time against the decisions of the BJP and the BJP government, but in the Lok Sabha, the BJP has done such batting on the Waqf bill that it has become clear in the political arena that 1- The definition of secularism that the opposition wanted will not work. 2- The politics of putting every decision related to Muslims in the dock of anti-Muslims does not work anymore. 3- The political pot of votes will not be put on fire every time by calling Muslims a threat. 4- The intention of changing decisions on the pretext of protests on the issue related to Muslims is no longer successful. 5- The opposition will have to forget to consider the government running on the strength of Nitish and Naidu’s support as weak. 6- The opposition will also have to understand that even though their seats have increased this time, the power of decisions has not been lost from the hands of PM Modi.

In such a situation, there are also questions that did the Modi government change the mathematics of secularism politics in the country with one bill? Did the Modi government show with one bill that the politics of votes by scaring Muslims will not work? Did one bill tell that any change in the interest of Muslims does not mean opposition to secularism? Did the government show that the pace of taking aggressive decisions in Parliament has not decreased due to the reduction in seats? Will the country now see a new secularism of politics with the approval of the Waqf Bill?

PM Modi has no equal in taking decisions
The opposition must have thought that the government running on the strength of Nitish Kumar’s MPs in Bihar and Chandrababu Naidu’s MPs in Andhra Pradesh would hesitate in taking a decision on Waqf, but even with 240 seats, the BJP looked the same in Parliament as it was with 303 seats. When the Modi government came to power for the second time in 2019, within 6 months, the government passed the triple talaq, freedom from Article 370 and CAA laws. At that time, the BJP had a majority of 303 seats on its own. This time when the government was formed in 2024, BJP got only 240 seats of its own, but in a few months, it finally got its approval by presenting the Waqf Amendment Bill. The approval of the bill is proof that even though the government may not have a majority on its own, PM Modi has no equal in taking decisions by consensus.

Will its effect be seen in electoral politics?
Will the effect of the Waqf Bill be seen in electoral politics in future? This question is because Bihar elections are coming up, then West Bengal elections are in less than a year. The Home Minister understands this electoral politics very well, that is why when TMC raised questions on the bill in the House, protested, Amit Shah’s answer came into discussion.

The government rejected the allegations of the opposition
The question is that while the opposition leaders kept saying that there will be protest by taking to the streets. Have the Muslims themselves not supported them in this politics of theirs? Is the reason for this that while the opposition kept saying that non-Muslims will become the majority in the Waqf Board, mosques and dargahs will be taken over, the government will snatch the property of Muslims, the tradition of the historical Waqf site will be affected, the government has consistently and boldly rejected all these claims and told the truth. What all did the opposition and Muslim organizations not remind Nitish Kumar and Chandrababu Naidu, but when it was time to support and oppose today, both JDU and TDP dashed the dreams of the opponents

Has the math of Muslim vote politics changed?
Seeing Nitish Kumar’s history of changing his stance, this time the opposition must have thought that who knows whether Sushasan Babu, who used to do Iftar parties, will change his stance again, that is why even the leaders of Owaisi’s party were engaged till the end in awakening Nitish Kumar against BJP in the name of Muslim vote, but everyone’s dream was shattered. Nitish’s party has shown that the math of Muslim vote politics has changed. Delhi, Bihar’s capital Patna and Andhra Pradesh’s Vijayawada. From this you can understand how much effort was made, how much pressure was made by the opposition parties and the Muslim Personal Law Board to bring Nitish Kumar and Chandrababu Naidu against the bill, even in the demonstration of the Muslim Personal Law Board, posters were put up with Nitish Naidu’s name written on them, so that they oppose the bill, but the government set such a math on the bill that the opposition did not succeed, rather Nitish’s party was seen openly playing in the House on the bill for the BJP.