MOFA Amendment Sparks Legal Concerns

There's a big discussion about a new law called the MOFA Amendment Bill, 2025, in Maharashtra.

The governor has already approved this law, but some people, like a group called Mumbai Grahak Panchayat and a lawyer named Advocate Shirish V Deshpande, think it's not legal because it didn't get approval from the President of India.

They say this is important because the law might conflict with another national law called RERA.

The Supreme Court has previously struck down a similar law in West Bengal for this reason.

The new MOFA law has some rules that overlap with RERA, but the lawyer says they're not exactly the same, so it might not be a problem.

However, he believes the law is still invalid because it didn't get the President's approval, which is required by the Constitution.