The lower house of India's parliament has passed a controversial bill that seeks to change how properties worth billions of dollars donated by Indian Muslims over centuries are governed.

The Indian Parliament passed amendments to a controversial decades-old law governing Muslim-owned properties donated for religious and charitable purposes, after lengthy debates in both houses.

India's parliament passed a controversial bill moved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government to amend laws governing Muslim land endowments while Muslim groups and opposition parties protested the move.