Today (February 13, Thursday), a report of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) set up on the Waqf Amendment Bill in both the Houses of Parliament (Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha) was presented, but MPs from opposition parties did not include disagreeing comments in that report. Accusing him of leaving, not only created a lot of uproar, but he also walked out of the House. As soon as the committee chairman Jagdambika Pal put the report on the floor of the House, opposition members started creating uproar.
Meanwhile, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said, “Honorable President, some members of the opposition are objecting that their disagreements are not fully placed in the report. I request you on behalf of my party to appropriately connect these disagreements under the parliamentary functioning. Our party has no objection to this. ” On this, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said that some members of the opposition had met him and expressed their objections, whose disagreement has been kept in the Annexer of the report. Despite this, the opposition members were not satisfied and went out of the House in a ruckus.
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Talking to the media out of Parliament, AIMIM chief and MP from Hyderabad, Asaduddin Owaisi alleged that the Waqf Bill had been brought to ruin Muslims. He said, “This bill has been introduced not to protect Waqf’s properties, but to snatch and destroy the Waqf properties of Muslims from them.” Owaisi said that the amendments made by the government have made the bill worse and it is unconstitutional. He also said that this bill is being brought to Muslims with the aim of removing them from their religious properties.
Owaisi further said, “This bill is not only unconstitutional, but also violates Articles 14, 15 and 29 of the Constitution. We condemn this bill. ” However, he also stated that the Lok Sabha Speaker has assured that 70% of the disagreement of opposition MPs will be included in the edited edition report. Former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti also responded to the bill, saying that the BJP has brought this bill only to get votes, like before Section 370 and temple-mosque dispute.
In the Rajya Sabha, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge also opposed the bill, saying that it is wrong to remove the comments of the disagreement of JPC members on the Waqf Bill from the report and the report is fake without it, which will not be accepted. He alleged that the government had arbitrary in the JPC on the Waqf Bill and the points that disagreeed were removed from the proceedings. Kharge said that removing the report of disagreement is unconstitutional and without this the report is fake.
