Modi's Vision, Shah's Execution: Waqf (Amendment) Bill: The Magna Carta of Muslim Empowerment

A significant share of Waqf income will also support scholarships, women-led initiatives, and youth training programs. This ensures that the real beneficiaries—the poor and marginalized—finally receive the support they deserve. It converts dormant land and wealth into tools for development, empowering underprivileged communities with better infrastructure, learning access, and dignified livelihoods.

- RAGHAVENDRA PRASAD TIWARI

Injustice in landholding is one of the fundamental determinants of social justice. And land redistribution based on democratic ethics is a powerful weapon against any form of social injustice. Hindrances in access to land and natural resources, invariably, have defined not only economic but also social and political deprivation of the masses. However, these deprivations have also generated powerful reactions which have resulted in new regulations for restructuring the extant, archaic and regressive political construct. In India, the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, power and social status, specifically in the context of the Muslim community, has impeded the efficient use of resources, depressed the rates of economic progress and prevented the achievement of minimum social and political stability. History shows that countries with greater justice in asset holding have grown faster.

In this context the transformative vision driven by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and executed with strategic precision by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, the Government of India has introduced many bills to deepen democracy. Recently, Modi government has successfully passed the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025. This landmark reform marks a defining moment for the empowerment of India's Muslim community. For decades, Waqf properties—upliftment of the community—remained enmeshed in opaque practices, mismanagement, and elite control. The amendment aims to dismantle these entrenched structures and usher in a new era of transparency, accountability, and inclusive governance. Under Modi's vision and Shah's assertive execution, the Bill sets a clear course for empowering ordinary Muslims, ensuring women's representation, and redirecting Waqf resources toward genuine public welfare.