There should be a mass movement first to reject the Waqf Amendment Bill and then a national conference by Muslims to find ways and means to take control of all their Awqaf, through their own people, who are not in any way, openly or covertly aligned with any political groups. Muslims have a right to protect their Awqaf properties from the clutches of corrupt governments and its bureaucrats, as much as they have the right to protect their personal laws.
Salman Khurshid is right when he accuses Muslims of not trusting anybody in government or political parties. Does he have to be informed of the utterly unfair treatment of Muslims by the Congress over the last 63 years? But he too must understand that there is a deep and abiding trust deficit between Congress and Muslims and pressing to pass this bill will give a big handle for Congress detractors to gather Muslims over the virtual nationalisation of entire Muslim Awkaf of India. It is for the good health of Congress Party that Salman Khurshid and others who are interested in opening another source of institutionalised corruption for the political appointees of Congress or other ruling coalitions, that they should desist from proceeding with the matter and let the bill be thrown into the dustbin of Congress history.
Ghulam Muhammed
Mumbai, M.S.