Chandigarh: Prime Minister Narendra Modi demands the Congress party to select a Muslim as its president of the party.  he criticized that the Congress party is adopting appeasing policy on Muslims by opposing the Waqf Amendment bill- 2025.

PM Modi in his address in a rally at Hisar in Haryana on Monday on the 134^th birth anniversary of Dr B R Ambedkar, he asked the Congress to select a Muslim as its president or allocate 50% of tickets to Muslim candidates if it truly cared for the community.

Before his rally in Hisar, PM Modi laid the foundation stone of the new terminal building of the Maharaja Agrasen Airport worth over Rs 410 crores.  He flagged off a commercial flight to Ayodhya from Hisar.

Congress of turning SCs, STs, and OBCs into second-class citizens when in power, he alleged. He cited the case of Karnataka, where the Government turned the reservations for SCs, STs, and OBCs into an appeasement tool, granting reservations in Government tenders based on religion.

He said that the Constitution has no such provision. On the availability of vast tracts of land under Waqf boards, Modi said that they were meant to benefit the poor, destitute women and children but were exploited by a handful of land mafia. He claimed that the mafia was encroaching on lands belonging to SCs, tribals and backward classes, leaving the Pasmanda Muslim community without any benefits.

Modi said that this amendment would end such exploitation, ensuring that Waqf Boards cannot touch tribal lands. He described this as a major step in protecting tribal interests.