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In his first speech on the topic after the Waqf (Amendment) Bill was passed in Parliament last week, PM Narendra Modi strongly reacted to the intense debate over the legislation
PM Narendra Modi spoke on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill for the first time after it was passed in Parliament last week. (Image: News18)
Attacking opposition parties over protests around the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said they were rooted in “appeasement politics”. In his first speech on the topic after the Bill was passed in Parliament last week, he strongly reacted to the intense debate over it.
“We can’t burden 21st century generations with the politics of 20th century. The protests around Waqf are rooted in the politics of appeasement,” he said while delivering the keynote address on Day 1 of the Rising Bharat Summit 2025.
Modi said this is a big challenge and the debate around the Waqf bill has appeasement politics at its foundation. He, however, said this was not a new tactic used by the opposition parties. Drawing a parallel with the Partition of India in 1947, he said the Congress grabbed power by appeasement politics during India’s independence.
“Politics of appeasement is not new. Many countries got liberated, but is there any country whose freedom happened with partition? The two-nation theory was not the decision of the common Muslim, but the Congress got power by politics of appeasement; but the question is what did the Muslims get from it?” he asked.
Further attacking the opposition, he said the 2013 amendments to the Wakf Act were to appease land mafia. “The Waqf law had become a cause of fear. Now it ensures dignity for all, especially the marginalised in the Muslim community,” he said, while adding that the debate over the Bill was the second longest in the history of India.
