Waqf invoice: JPC report back to be tabled in Parliament at present amid row over Opposition’s dissent notes

Based on the Listing of Enterprise, Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) MP Jagdambika Pal, together with Sanjay Jaiswal, will current the report (Hindi and English variations), together with the document of proof given earlier than the committee that helped it attain the conclusion that it did.

Jagdambika Pal met with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Thursday to current the committee’s ultimate report on the invoice.

“We now have adopted the report and the amended revised invoice. For the primary time, we’ve got included a bit stating that the advantages of Waqf ought to go to the marginalized, poor, girls, and orphans. Tomorrow, we are going to current this report back to the Speaker,” he advised information company ANI on Wednesday.

“We had 44 clauses earlier than us, out of which amendments had been proposed by members in 14 clauses. We carried out a majority vote, and these amendments had been then adopted,” Pal added.

The JPC adopted the draft report and the amended revised invoice on Wednesday, January 29. Nonetheless, the opposition leaders submitted their dissent notes on the report.

The JPC had earlier cleared the Waqf Invoice 1995 with 25 amendments throughout 14 clauses and sections.

Asadudin Owaisi says his dissent be aware redacted

AIMIM’s Asaduddin Owaisi claimed elements of his dissent be aware on the JPC report had been deleted. Based on him, they simply ‘acknowledged info’

“I had submitted an in depth dissent be aware to JPC towards Waqf Invoice. It’s stunning that elements of my be aware had been redacted with out my data. The deleted sections weren’t controversial, they solely acknowledged info,” he stated on X.

Owaisi additionally requested why the JPC chairperson Jagdambika Pal was stifling opposition voices though he ‘obtained the report he wished’.

The Waqf Act of 1995, enacted to control Waqf properties, has lengthy been criticised for points similar to mismanagement, corruption, and encroachments.

The Waqf (Modification) Invoice, 2024, goals to deal with these challenges by introducing reforms similar to digitisation, enhanced audits, improved transparency, and authorized mechanisms to reclaim illegally occupied properties.

The Finances session of Parliament started on January 31 and can proceed until April 4 in two phases.