Union Home Minister Amit Shah vowed Sunday that the Waqf Amendment Bill would be passed in the winter session later this year, and those opposing it “will be straightened out” once the law is enacted.
You need help with the Waqf Board legislation. He said we would amend it in the Winter Session of Parliament, adding that the opposition leaders, on several occasions last month, charged that the Centre’s Waqf Bill aims to create a divide in society.
Speaking at rallies in Badshahpur and Indri assemblies in poll-bound Haryana, Shah intensified his attack on the opposition Congress and said Rahul Gandhi’s guarantees had failed in Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka and Telangana — states ruled by the grand old party.
At Badshahpur in Gurugram, he said that the Congress makes tall promises at the time of elections. Not fulfilling them, he said, was added by him while their election guarantees have “come a cropper” in these three states.
Shah further said the BJP does not make a promise it cannot honor. Rahul Baba and company cannot take up development,” he said, referring to the BJP’s being in power both at the Centre and in the state. It is the “double-engine” government that will ensure Haryana’s development.
“We will ensure the country’s borders are safe, reservations are safe, and Article 370 will never return,” he said.
After the Badshahpur rally, he addressed two more rallies at Nangal Chaudhary in Mahendragarh and Indri in Karnal district.
He said he has felt the “atmosphere” throughout Haryana and emphasized that the saffron party will deliver a “hat-trick” of poll victories here.
The home minister said Congress could neither make the country secure nor develop it and attacked the party over corruption, casteism, nepotism, and appeasement. He called the Congress “anti-poor,” “anti-Dalits,” “anti-youngsters,” and “anti-farmers.”
