20 April,2025 07:45 AM IST | New Delhi | Agencies
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge with Party General Secretary (Organisation) KC Venugopal (right) and MP Ajay Maken (left) during a meeting at Indira Bhawan in New Delhi, on Saturday. Pic/PTI
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday said the Supreme Court has given importance to the points raised by the Congress and other Opposition parties on the Waqf (Amendment) Act and alleged that the government had raked the "Waqf by user" issue deliberately to create a dispute over such properties.
Addressing a meeting of general secretary and in-charges here, Kharge said former party chiefs Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were named in the Enforcement Directorate chargesheet and National Herald properties in Delhi, Lucknow and Mumbai were attached with a "spirit of vendetta".
Referring to the Waqf (Amendment) Act that is being heard in the Supreme Court, he said, "I am happy that the Supreme Court has given importance to the points raised by the Congress and other Opposition parties."
He accused the BJP and the central government of misleading people on the issue of Waqf.
"Especially the issue of âWaqf by user' has been deliberately brought up by the government to put Waqf properties into dispute," he alleged. Kharge said the Congress would not be cowed down by the Enforcement Directorate's action in the National Herald case.
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"You must have noticed how, as part of a big conspiracy, the names of CPP Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi have been put in the chargesheet in the National Herald case. But no matter whose name they put, we are not going to be afraid, " Kharge said.
"Just two or three days before that, the properties of National Herald in Delhi, Lucknow and Mumbai were attached. There is no doubt that all this is being done out of a spirit of vendetta, " he said. Asserting that âYoung Indian' is a ânot for profit' company, Kharge said this means that no one can take or transfer the shares, properties or profit of AJL.
