The far-right Islamist party Khilafat Majlis in Dhaka announced that they will hold a mass protest and march to the Indian Embassy on April 23. The party says this is in response to the Indian government's newly amended Waqf Act and calls the amendment the continued “oppression and killing” of Muslims in India.

According to the party, the protest will include a public gathering followed by the delivery of a memorandum to Indian officials, demanding repeal of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025.

Khilafat Majlis leader Maulana Mamunul Haque accused the Indian government of taking over Muslim land, including Waqf properties and building religious structures like temples on them. 

“By encroaching on, or illegally acquiring, the private and Waqf properties of Muslims, they are constructing various structures, including temples there,” said Haque. He has stated that the waqf law is grabbing away land from the Muslim Community. “The Hindutva BJP government has been killing Muslims all over India for a long time. They have unleashed party extremist Hindu militants on Muslims,” he added.

Religious leaders and rights groups have criticised the Waqf (Amendment) Act, passed earlier this year by the Indian Parliament, claiming that it interferes with the autonomy of Muslim charitable and religious trusts.

“The bill basically interferes with the religious laws and rights of Muslims,” Haque said. “Muslims across India erupted in protest against the bill. We have already expressed our anger and condemnation of these steps.”

To protest further, the party is also trying to gather global attention to bring this to light to Muslims across the world. “The Muslim world should speak out against the killing of Muslims by the Indian state and its interference in the religious affairs of Muslims,” Haque said. 

The Khilafat Majlis claims that India has been spreading false stories about the treatment of minorities in Bangladesh. Haque alleged that the Indian government and media were deliberately misrepresenting the situation in Bangladesh to distract its population from internal issues of the country.

“The Indian government and its low-quality media have been spreading false propaganda of minority persecution in Bangladesh consistently worldwide,” he claimed.

Senior leaders from the party like Secretary General Maulana Jalaluddin Ahmad, Naib Ameer Maulana Yusuf Ashraf, Maulana Rezaul Karim Jalali, Maulana Afzalur Rahman, and former MPs Maulana Shahinur Pasha Chowdhury and Maulana Kurban Ali were all present at the party’s executive council meeting where the protest was announced.

The party urged the Bangladeshi government to speak up against ongoing violence and injustice against Indian Muslims.