Srinagar: Welcoming the Supreme Court’s order to put on hold some key provisions of the Waqf Amendment Act, NC MP Ruhullah Mehdi Tuesday said law should be applied equally on everyone across all religions.
“I appeal to the Supreme Court in general that law should be applied equally on everyone, across all religions. If Muslims cannot govern institutions of other religions, then how can it be applied to the Muslims?” he said.
He said the SC order has sent a positive message, “but that is not the end”.
“Hopefully, this positive start will open doors for the justice that we hope for from the Supreme Court,” he added.
To a question on the PSA on AAP’s Doda MLA Mehraj Malik, Mehdi said people have to stand up against the “PSA regime”.
“I have said no one is safe. Any citizen of J&K who talks about his rights is not safe. It is up to us to either just watch the situation or get proactive and fight against this PSA regime… This will only stop when we fight it together,” he said.
Without naming his party’s government in the Union territory, the Srinagar MP said “those we gave the mandate to, have perhaps not understood that they have to stand up against this regime proactively”.
“I want to tell them to wake up and understand this. If they stay silent right now, then their turn will also come. If they don’t wake up, then we all have to rise and stand against it,” Mehdi said.
