‘Black Badge Protest, Top Court Challenge’: How DMK’s MK Stalin Waqf is trying to create most politics of Waqf

New Delhi: With elections in Tamil Nadu earlier next year, DMK President and Chief Minister MK Stalin led to emerging as one of the strongest critics of the Waqf Amendment Bill – which is fully prepared to achieve Parliament.
On Thursday, Stalin came to the assembly wearing a black badge to protest the passage of the bill in the Lok Sabha. The Chief Minister also announced that his government would challenge the bill in the Supreme Court.
The Chief Minister said, “This is a task that harasses religious harmony. To highlight it, we are participating in today’s assembly proceedings wearing black badges.”
“I would like to inform you that the Supreme Court will be contacted by the Dravidian Munnetra Kazgam (DMK) against this controversial amendment. Tamil Nadu will fight against the central government law that destroys the autonomy of the WAQF board and threatens minority Muslim population.”
In the Rajya Sabha Tiruchi Shiva, a member of his party made a strong case against the bill and claimed that the BJP -led NDA government was targeting Muslims.
“Why is a certain community being targeted? The government’s intention is malafied and disappointing. The government says ‘Saba sixty, Saba Vichhas’, but they have a separate policy for Muslims – exclusion and frontier. It is a sad day. The upper house. Shiva said in his speech how BJP governments were targeting Muslims in states like Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.
Earlier on Wednesday, when the bill was being debated in the Lok Sabha, Stalin shot a letter to Prime Minister Modi against the law.
“The Constitution of India gives every citizen the right to follow his respective religion and it is the duty of the elected governments to maintain this right and protect them. However, the proposed amendments in the Waqf Act, 1995 have not taken into account the constitutional security given to the minorities and are bound to severely damage the interest of the Muslim community,” Stalin has written in his letter.
Last week, Stalin passed a resolution against the bill in the state assembly on 27 March. The proposal said that the proposed WAQF law would seriously affect the religious harmony of India besides the minority Muslim community.
Apparently, all his tricks appear to be a part of a well -planned political strategy to steal the initiative on their rivals in the state with assembly elections earlier next year.
Interestingly, AIADMK, who is a staunch rival of DMK, has been forced to support the government on all these initiatives.
In fact, actor-Raja Tamilga Vatri Vairi Kazgam chief, who can be amazing factor in the upcoming assembly elections, has also dubbed the Waqf Bill “anti-Democratic” and demanded that it be withdrawn.
Accusing the BJP of doing “major and divisive politics”, he wondered if the bill was not a “psychological attack” on Muslims and dismissed the arguments of the BJP -led Center in support of the bill.
“TVK urged that the anti -democratic bill should be noticed the voice of all democratic forces immediately. If the central government led by the BJP does not do so, TV will join the army with Muslim brothers and participate in the legal struggle of its Waqf rights,” Vijay said.
Stalin is in a hurry to focus on some issues raised by the BJP in the state.
When Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan asked the DMK government in Tamil Nadu to implement the three -language policy, Stalin turned it into an issue of state rights, alleging that it was not the national education policy that the BJP was trying to implement, but a “saffron policy” was not a Hindi and country.
Increasing the possibility of “imposing Hindi” on the state, Stalin claimed that Tamil Nadu was ready for another language war. The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu did not stop at him.
He picked up the pitch on the “danger” of Tamil Nadu to lose Lok Sabha seats under the proposed delimitation and called an all-party meeting on the issue to ensure that the state was not punished to ensure development and control the population.
Muslims have formed about 6% of the state’s population and equally supported DMK and AIADMK in their pockets of their influence. However, this time Stalin probably wants to strengthen his support for his party. In addition, perhaps CM Stalin has made a concerted effort to make DMK a main stream player in national politics and lead opposition unity against the BJP. This was clear when Stalin brought opposition CMS and leaders of non-NDA parties to the Joint Action Committee against the circumstances.