Waqf Bill Debate Today | Kiren Rijiju Blasts UPA Government: "Parliament Was Being Claimed As Waqf"

Waqf Bill Debate Today | Kiren Rijiju Blasts UPA Government: "Parliament Was Being Claimed As Waqf" The promised eight-hour debate Wednesday on the Waqf Amendment Bill began with a point of order raised by an opposition MP - NK Ramachandran of the Revolutionary Socialist Party - who questioned the authority of the parliamen The promised eight-hour debate on changes to Waqf laws kicked off Wednesday with Minority Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju firing jabs at the Congress, claiming the party - which has fiercely opposed this bill and which the BJP has repeatedly accused of 'minority appeasement' - would have handed over the (old) Parliament building to the Waqf councils.