Uproar In Waqf Board JPC Meeting: 10 Opposition MPs Suspended

Delhi/Hyderabad, Jan 24 (Maxim News): 10 opposition MPs were suspended for a day on Friday following a ruckus during the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) meeting on the Waqf Amendment Bill 2024.

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The suspended MPs include Kalyan Banerjee, Md. Jawaid, A Raja, Asaduddin Owaisi, Nasir Hussain, Mohibullah, M. Abdullah, Arvind Sawant, Nadimul Haq, and Imran Masood.

Following the meeting, TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee accused the JPC chairman Jagdambika Pal of not listening to the opposition and conducting the proceedings like a “zamindari“.

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“After the 21st January late session, the chairman informed the members that the meeting will be held on the 24th and 25th of January. Other members protested and wrote a letter. We requested to schedule the meeting after the 30th or 31st but the chairman did not listen to us. So we came by postponing all our programs. Yesterday at midnight we got the message that there is a change of agenda, there won’t be a clockwise discussion but a meeting will be held on the 24th and 27th but not on the 25th (January). What is happening inside is like undeclared Emergency proceedings,” Banerjee said.

“They are trying to hurry things up because of the Delhi elections… It is politically motivated. The chairman doesn’t listen to anyone… It is like ‘zamindari’. They don’t give any respect to the opposition members. This JPC has become a farce,” he added.

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“The chairman should also understand how many days the earlier JPCs on Waqf and other issues have functioned. There were a larger number of sittings. So, I don’t think we should hurry. We should discuss in detail and present a comprehensive report. Instead, what BJP and the government are trying to do is push the JPC to submit the report only to gain an advantage in the Delhi elections,” Congress MP Nasir Hussain said.

Meanwhile, BJP MP and JPC member Nishikant Dubey accused the opposition of creating a ruckus and acting against parliamentary democracy.

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“The opposition, especially Owaisi ji, believed that Jammu and Kashmir’s full representation was not heard, and elected representatives should have been called. Today’s meeting, which was scheduled to discuss… was postponed by the chairman based on the opposition’s suggestion,” Dubey said.

“However, in front of Mirwaiz, these people created a ruckus, misbehaved, and acted against parliamentary democracy,” he added. This is not the first time that a JPC meeting on the Waqf Amendment Bill 2024 was concluded in a ruckus.

Earlier in October, a scuffle broke out between Kalyan Banerjee and BJP’s Abhijit Gangopadhyay during the Joint Parliamentary Committee meeting on the Waqf Bill. Banerjee smashed a glass bottle and hurled it towards the committee’s chairperson, BJP MP Jagdambika Pal, injuring himself in the process. (Maxim News)

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