JPC report on Waqf Bill tabled in Rajya Sabha amid uproar by Opposition

The report of the joint parliamentary committee on the 2024 Waqf Amendment Bill was tabled in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday amid an uproar by Opposition MPs, The Hindu reported.

The report was tabled by Bharatiya Janata Party MP Medha Vishram Kulkarni, who is also a member of the committee.

Subsequently, the session was adjourned briefly following the Opposition’s protests against the report, PTI reported.

On January 29, the joint parliamentary committee adopted the revised 2024 Waqf Amendment Bill after a vote, with 15 votes in favour of its draft report and 11 against. Two days earlier, the panel had cleared the bill after accepting proposals from MPs from the ruling National Democratic Alliance.

Amendments proposed by Opposition MPs were rejected.

After proceedings resumed on Thursday, Mallikarjun Kharge, the leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, claimed that dissent notes had been deleted from the committee’s report and said that this was “condemnable and anti-democratic”, The Indian Express reported.

The Congress chief urged Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar to reject the report and send it back to the committee.

#WATCH | Delhi: In the Rajya Sabha, Leader of the Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge says, “… In the JPC report on the Waqf Board, many members have their dissent report… It is not right to remove those notes and bulldoze our views… This is anti-democracy… I…

Read more