New Delhi: The Centre on Thursday will introduce two bills in Parliament to amend the law governing Waqf Boards.

The revised list of business of the Lok Sabha mentions Minority Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju will move the bills.

The List reads: “Kiren Rijiju to move for leave to introduce a Bill further to amend the Waqf Act, 1995. Also to introduce the Bill.”

“Kiren Rijiju to move for leave to introduce a Bill to repeal the Mussalman Wakf Act, 1923. Also to introduce the Bill,” the list further mentions.

Before moving the bills in the Lok Sabha Sabha, Minister Rijiju will seek the withdrawal of a law that was presented in the Rajya Sabha on February 18, 2014, during the tenure of Manmohan Singh’s UPA government. The Upper House list of business reads, “Kiren Rijiju to move for leave to withdraw a Bill to provide for the eviction of unauthorized occupants from waqf properties and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto, The Waqf Properties (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants), Bill, 2014.”

The Centre is introducing the bills amid the hue and cry over the ‘curtailing’ of powers of the Waqf Board, particularly by Muslim outfits.

The Bills are aimed at kick-starting reforms in the Waqf Board as it makes it compulsory for the body to have two women members on its panel.

Registration of Waqf property through a central portal and protection of the rights of the Bohra community are other salient features of the proposed amendments.

The Amendment Bill also proposes to strip the Board of its power to declare any property as a ‘Waqf property’.