Jammu Tawi, April 14 -- Amid the ongoing violent anti-Waqf Amendment Act protests in Murshidabad, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today that bringing in the amendment was necessary for the protection of the rights of Muslim women, Dalits and Adivasis.



Speaking on the occasion of the foundation laying ceremony of the new terminal building in Hissar, the PM lashed out at the previous Congress regimes, saying that the national party had, through the 'Waqf' act, handed over the lands of the poor, Dalits, Adivasis to the mafias.



The PM claimed that his government had made necessary amendments to the act so that no one could snatch land from an Adivasi. He added that the step (Waqf Amendment Act) was necessary for the protection of r...