In Hyderabad, thousands gathered Sunday night at a public meeting organized by the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) and supported by AIMIM to protest the Waqf (Amendment) Act. With participation from major regional parties, the rally announced a schedule of symbolic protests and meetings, including a city-wide blackout on April 30. Leaders called the law discriminatory and vowed to resist it through peaceful, constitutional means.

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• Massive anti-Waqf Act rally held in Hyderabad by AIMPLB and AIMIM
• Protest supported by Congress, BRS, YSRCP, DMK; thousands attended
• Blackout protest set for April 30, 9 PM—homes to switch off lights
• Human chain across Hyderabad planned for May 25
• Sit-in protest to follow on June 1; women’s meet on May 22
• Roundtable meetings to begin May 18, district-wide expansion planned
• AIMPLB says new law blocks retrieval of Waqf property from encroachers
• Owaisi: Law makes Muslims “visitors” at own places of worship
• Dawoodi Bohra community not backing law, contrary to BJP claims
• Protest framed as constitutional fight involving all communities