{"id":296691,"date":"2025-04-05T16:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T11:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=296691"},"modified":"2025-04-06T03:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T22:09:14","slug":"old-video-of-owaisi-laughing-with-bjp-members-viral-on-social-media-as-him-reacting-to-passage-of-waqf-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-video-of-owaisi-laughing-with-bjp-members-viral-on-social-media-as-him-reacting-to-passage-of-waqf-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Old video of Owaisi laughing with BJP members viral on social media as him reacting to passage of Waqf Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

A video showing some members of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024 sharing a seemingly light-hearted moment is viral on social media with claims that it shows them looking content after the passage of the contentious bill.<\/p>\n

The much-debated Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025 was passed<\/a> in Parliament in the early hours of April 4. An earlier version of the bill, the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, was introduced in the Lok Sabha on August 8, 2024, The following day, August 9, 2024, both Houses of Parliament separately agreed to send the bill to a Joint Parliamentary Committee for review. This committee had 21 Lok Sabha members and 10 Rajya Sabha members.<\/a><\/p>\n

In the viral clip, JPC members across parties including Assaduddin Owaisi of the All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM); Abhijit Gangopadhyay, Nishikant Dubey, Aparajita Sarangi,\u2028Sanjay Jaiswal,\u2028Dilip Saikia,\u2028D. K. Aruna and Jagadamibika Pal of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP); Mohibbullah Nadvi of the Samajwadi Party (SP); Mohammad Jawed and Syed Nasir Hussain from Congress and Naresh Ganpat Mhaske of Shiv Sena can be seen along with a few others sharing a laugh.<\/p>\n

However, those sharing the viral video particularly targeted Owaisi, who is a vocal critic of the bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also Read: Did Asaduddin Owaisi cry after the Waqf Bill was passed?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Far-Right X account @HPhobiaWatch shared the video with a sarcastic comment that it showed “saviours of democracy and minorities”. “Owaisi had the loudest thahaka” (Translation: Owaisi had the loudest laugh), it also said. (Archive<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Saviours of democracy and minorities after Waqf bill was passed<\/p>\n

Owaisi had the loudest thahaka pic.twitter.com\/sa803PU5DX<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Hindutva Knight (@HPhobiaWatch) April 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another far-Right user @KreatelyMedia shared the same video and remarked that “internally they were all happy” with the bill. (Archive<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Internally they are all happy with WAQF Bill<\/p>\n

\ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n

pic.twitter.com\/0rHzJM23do<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Kreately.in (@KreatelyMedia) April 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rishi Bagree, another social media user aligning with right-wing ideology whose posts with misinformation have been fact-checked several times by Alt News, commented that the JPC was celebrating the passage of the Bill with jalebis. <\/em>(Archive<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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JPC members celebrating Waqf bill with Jalebi \ud83d\ude03 pic.twitter.com\/fwp2dKLq3I<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Rishi Bagree (@rishibagree) April 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Other users also shared the purported video with the same claim. (Archives- 1<\/a>, 2<\/a>)<\/p>\n