New Delhi, March 17 -- All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi claimed on Monday that the Waqf (Amendment) Bill is intended to snatch away graveyards, khanqahs, dargahs from Muslims. The Hyderabad MP joined the All India Muslim Personal Law Board's (AIMPLB) protest against the Bill in New Delhi.

"Our job is to protest because it is unconstitutional. This Bill is not for saving Waqf property, not for removing encroachers but for ending Waqf property, for snatching away graveyards, khanqahs, dargahs from Muslims," Owaisi said at the protest at the national capital's iconic Jantar Mantar.

Khanqahs and dargahs are tombs or shrines of revered Muslim saints.

The AIMPLB, the apex body of Muslim clerics in India, ...