New Delhi, April 2 -- Assam Congress leader and Deputy Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Gaurav Gogoi objected to a proposal on who can donate a property to Waqf in the revised Waqf Amendment Bill 2025 tabled in Parliament on Wednesday.

This Section 3r(A) is among several other sections and clauses of this revised bill that Gogoi said were against the Constitution. Section 3(r)(A) in the new Bill tabled in Lok Sabha on Wednesday prescribes who can donate property to Waqf or create Waqf property.

In the earlier version of the bill (Waqf Amendment Bill 2024) (tabled in August 2024), under Section 3(r)(A), any practising Muslim for at least five years could donate property to Waqf. The Waqf Amendment Bill 2024 stated that the owner could ...