The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) president, K.M. Kader Mohideen, on Sunday said that his party would take legal remedy to protect the Waqf Act.

He told presspersons that the report of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Waqf Amendment Bill had been tabled in Parliament. Several members of the Committee had given dissenting notes against several aspects of the Bill. It was not clear whether the dissenting notes had been accommodated in the JPC report. Strong attempts were being made to curtail the rights of Muslims by adopting the Bill. The IUML was of the view that it was not an amendment but it was aimed at annihilating the Waqf Act, he said.

Taking exception to the statement of Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Minority Affairs Kiren Rijiju that many Muslim MPs had backed the Bill, Mr. Kader Mohideen said that his statement could not be accepted. All India Muslim Personal Law Board and other top Muslim organisations should be consulted on the proposed amendments. If the Union Government went ahead with the Bill in its present form, the IUML would seek legal remedy to protect the Waqf Act, he added.