By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: The Enemy Property (Amendment & Validation) Second Bill, 2010, which is presently with the Department-Related Parliamentary Standing Committee (Rajya Sabha) On Home Affairs, “proposes for inserting suitable provisions to enable the Custodian of Enemy Property and the Central Government to preserve and manage the enemy properties more effectively.”
The bill is also aimed at blocking the legal rout through which Raja of Mahmoodabad won the title suit in 2010 when the Supreme Court upheld his right on the properties his father left behind in India while moving to Pakistan in 1957. After the 1965 war with Pakistan, India enacted Enemy Property Act, 1968 through which our country declared all properties of those migrants including those of Late Raja MA Ahmad Khan, father of Raja of Mahmoodabad, as ‘enemy properties’. However, the Raja fought the case and after more than three decades won the case in Supreme Court.
But soon after the SC order, the Union Home Ministry issued an ordinance blocking the way for future claimants but after protest it was withdrawn. Then the government introduced in the Lok Sabha the Enemy Property (Amendment & Validation) Second Bill, 2010 on 15th November 2010. The bill could not be passed and sent to aforesaid committee for redraft.
Headed by Venkaiah Naidu, Rajya Sabha Member of BJP, the Department-Related Parliamentary Standing Committee (Rajya Sabha) On Home Affairs, which is working on the bill, has set March 15, 2011 as the last date to receive comments and suggestions from public.
There are 31 members on the committee from various political parties. They include 7 Members (including LK Advani) from BJP and 10 from Congress. There are four Muslim Members of Rajya Sabha also on the committee. They are: Tariq Anwar (NCP), Javed Akhtar (Nominated), Mohammad Asrarul Haque (Congress) and Muhammed Hamdulla A. B. Sayeed (Congress).
List of Members of the Committee
|
Sr.no |
Member Name |
Status |
House |
Party |
State |
|
1 |
Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu |
Chairman |
Rajya Sabha |
B.J.P. |
KAR |
|
2 |
Shri Tariq Anwar |
Member |
Rajya Sabha |
N.C.P. |
Maharashtra |
|
3 |
Shri S.S. Ahluwalia |
Member |
Rajya Sabha |
B.J.P. |
JHK |
|
4 |
Dr. N. Janardhana Reddy |
Member |
Rajya Sabha |
I.N.C. |
AP |
|
5 |
Dr. V. Maitreyan |
Member |
Rajya Sabha |
A.I.A.D.M.K. |
Tamil Nadu |
|
6 |
Shri Prasanta Chatterjee |
Member |
Rajya Sabha |
C.P.I.(M) |
West Bengal |
|
7 |
Shri Rishang Keishing |
Member |
Rajya Sabha |
I.N.C. |
Manipur |
|
8 |
Shri D. Raja |
Member |
Rajya Sabha |
C.P.I. |
Tamil Nadu |
|
9 |
Shri Naresh Chandra Agrawal |
Member |
Rajya Sabha |
B.S.P. |
UP |
|
10 1 |
Shri Javed Akhtar |
Member |
Rajya Sabha |
Nom. |
NOM. |
|
11 |
Shri Bhausaheb Rajaram Wakchaure |
Member |
Lok Sabha |
S.S. |
|
|
12 |
Shri Neeraj Shekhar |
Member |
Lok Sabha |
S.P. |
Uttar Pradesh |
|
13 |
Shri Bishnu Pada Ray |
Member |
Lok Sabha |
B.J.P. |
Andaman & Nicobar Islands |
|
14 |
Dr. Rattan Singh Ajnala |
Member |
Lok Sabha |
S.A.D. |
Punjab |
|
15 |
Shri Naveen Jindal |
Member |
Lok Sabha |
I.N.C. |
Haryana |
|
16 |
Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar |
Member |
Lok Sabha |
A.I.T.C. |
|
|
17 |
Shri Ramen Deka |
Member |
Lok Sabha |
B.J.P. |
|
|
18 |
Shri Mohammad Asrarul Haque |
Member |
Lok Sabha |
I.N.C. |
|
|
19 |
Shri Jitender Singh Malik |
Member |
Lok Sabha |
I.N.C. |
|
|
20 |
Shri Lalubhai Babubhai Patel |
Member |
Lok Sabha |
B.J.P. |
|
|
21 |
Shri Natubhai Gomanbhai Patel |
Member |
Lok Sabha |
B.J.P. |
|
|
22 |
Shri L. Rajagopal |
Member |
Lok Sabha |
I.N.C. |
|
|
23 |
Dr. Nilesh Narayan Rane |
Member |
Lok Sabha |
I.N.C. |
|
|
24 |
Muhammed Hamdulla A. B. Sayeed |
Member |
Lok Sabha |
I.N.C. |
|
|
25 |
Shri Ravneet Singh |
Member |
Lok Sabha |
I.N.C. |
|
|
26 |
Smt. Seema Upadhyay |
Member |
Lok Sabha |
B.S.P. |
|
|
27 |
Shri Anirudhan Sampath |
Member |
Lok Sabha |
C.P.I.(M) |
|
|
28 |
Dr. Raghuvansh Prasad Singh |
Member |
Lok Sabha |
R.J.D. |
Bihar |
|
29 |
Shri Dinesh Chandra Yadav |
Member |
Lok Sabha |
J.D.(U) |
Bihar |
|
30 |
Shri Lal Krishna Advani |
Member |
Lok Sabha |
B.J.P. |
Gujarat |
|
31 |
Shri Harsh Vardhan |
Member |
Lok Sabha |
I.N.C. |
|
|
Nominated w.e.f. 21/09/2010 |
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Several thousands of Muslims migrated to Pakistan after Independence in 1947 and later, leaving behind properties. Close relatives of many of those migrants, however, preferred India to live in. Many of them are legal heirs of those migrants. The bill will directly affect these thousands of genuine citizens of the country.
Text of the Enemy Property (Amendment & Validation) Bill, 2010