BJP MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal organised a protest rally in Vijayapura on Tuesday against laws regulating Waqf property in the country.
At the rally organised on the Sri Siddeshwar Swamy Temple premises, Hindutva organisation leaders Mithun Chakravarti Sulibele and BJP MLC C.T. Ravi and others spoke.
Most of the speakers sought a repeal of the Waqf Act 1995 and other similar laws.
“The Waqf Act needs to be repealed as it amounts to Land Jihad. Vested interests are trying to destroy Hindus, using tools like Love Jihad and Halal foods. It is not a modern law. It is a law enacted by the medieval era sultans to protect their property. Successive Congress governments have retained that discriminatory law. We need to fight against it and create awareness about it among the common people,” Mr. Ravi said.
“The Congress does not represent Constitutional values. It only represents the mindset of medieval kings like Ghori and Ghazni. We need to tell them to wake up as the era of the sultans is over and we need modern laws,” he said.
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