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The State portion of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has requested the Union authorities to implead successful a peculiar permission petition filed by the Kerala Waqf Samrakshana Vedhi earlier the Supreme Court, challenging the bid of a Division Bench of the Kerala High Court, which struck down the registration of the contentious Munambam holding arsenic a Waqf property.
Addressing the media present connected Thursday (November 27, 2025), BJP State vice president Shaun George said the party’s State president Rajeev Chandrasekhar had made the petition to the Centre.
Mr. George said the BJP would besides beryllium impleading itself successful the case, portion Minority Morcha State vice president Philip Joseph, a autochthonal of Munambam, had already filed a caveat.
Mr. George said his party’s stance was that the Munambam onshore quality indispensable beryllium considered successful the discourse of the Waqf Amendment Act 2025. He added that the Left Democratic Front (LDF) authorities and the Opposition United Democratic (UDF) were inactive reluctant to authorities that the Munambam onshore is not a Waqf property.
“The BJP wholeheartedly welcomes the High Court verdict granting the long-standing request to reconstruct the gross rights of the residents of Munambam. The tribunal bid has upheld the BJP’s basal since the beginning. But adjacent today, Law Minister P. Rajeeve was not acceptable to accidental that the Munambam onshore is not Waqf property. Nor does the Congress accidental that,” Mr. George said.
The BJP person said that though the Munambam residents were allowed to wage spot tax, the menace of Waqf assertion was inactive hanging implicit their head, and a last tribunal bid was indispensable to extremity their trouble.
“The BJP is arrogant to accidental that the instrumentality that designated the Munambam onshore arsenic waqf spot is nary much there. Now, determination should beryllium a tribunal bid based connected the existing Waqf law. For that, the Centre should implead successful the case. We anticipation the Centre volition respond favourably to our request,” helium said.
Mr. George alleged that the LDF authorities was colluding with the Waqf Samrakshana Vedhi to get the High Court bid stayed by the Supreme Court.
The Vedhi, an organisation for “restoration of alienated Waqf holdings,” has moved the apex tribunal with the contention that the bid of the Division Bench violated the doctrine of statutory finality by rendering its findings connected the validity of the Waqf declaration, a substance that was wrong the exclusive jurisdiction of the Waqf Tribunal.
