Kiren Rijiju: Zakir Naik spreading false propaganda on new waqf bill

NEW DELHI: Slamming controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik for his remarks on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill 2024, minority affairs minister Kiren Rijiju accused the wanted fugitive of spreading " false propaganda " and trying to stoke communal tensions .

"This anti-India character is spewing venoms by spreading false and fake propaganda and also trying to create communal disturbances in India. We need to unitedly fight against such people," Rijiju said on X on Saturday. Naik in a post on Sept 12 said that "if this Bill passes, thousands of mosques, madrasas and graveyards and lakhs of acres of land will be taken from Muslims".

Naik said, "...this anti Islamic, anti-Muslim coalition govt which is trying to usurp the properties of the Muslims..." He cited the case of Babri Masjid . "Imagine just one mosque - the Babri mosque - a couple of decades earlier when it was taken away, there was a big hue and cry and there were riots. If this bill is passed thousands of mosques, madrasars, graveyards can be taken away from Muslims. It is your duty, it is my duty that we see to it that we object to it," he added.