Suspended Waqf JPC Members Write To Lok Sabha Speaker, Demand Transparency & Postponement Of Jan 27 Assembly – News18

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The opposition MPs claimed that the panel Chairman was pushing the agenda underneath authorities strain, with an eye fixed on the Delhi meeting elections on February 5

The ten suspended members of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the Waqf Modification Invoice on Friday wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, calling for transparency and truthful conduct of the proceedings.

Of their letter, the members urged the Speaker to intervene and ask the committee chairman, BJP chief Jagdambika Pal, to seek the advice of with different members on setting a brand new date and agenda for the assembly.

The letter got here after the ten opposition MPs had been suspended throughout a gathering immediately, the place they accused Pal of decreasing the proceedings to a “farce” because the committee prepares to undertake its draft report subsequent week.

The suspended MPs additionally requested the postponement of the upcoming assembly on January 27 to offer opposition members sufficient time to current their arguments in keeping with Parliament’s guidelines and procedures.

“The Chairman of the JPC could kindly be instructed to conduct the proceedings in a clear and truthful method. The Chairman ought to postpone the twenty seventh assembly in order that the Opposition members can get the enough time and alternative to place forth our plea/claims with none departure from the foundations and process to make sure the Parliament democracy on which the Nation nonetheless has religion,” the letter signed by the ten MPs said.

The January 27 assembly is ready to contemplate the Invoice clause by clause earlier than finalising the report.

The opposition MPs claimed that Pal was pushing the agenda underneath authorities strain, with an eye fixed on the Delhi meeting elections on February 5.

In response, Pal accused opposition members, significantly Trinamool Congress’ Kalyan Banerjee, of insulting him in an try to derail the proceedings, stating they’d crossed all limits.

The signatories of the letter are Kalyan Banerjee, Mohammad Jawed, A. Raja, Asaduddin Owaisi, Nasir Hussain, Mohibullah, M. Abdullah, Arvind Sawant, Nadimul Haque, and Imran Masood.

The suspension is proscribed to Friday, and opposition MPs shall be allowed to attend the subsequent assembly. They’ve requested extra time to check the views of stakeholders and body their arguments accordingly.

‘Complete Present Run By 2 Folks’

Talking on the suspensions, DMK MP A Raja, who can be a member of the JPC, mentioned, “We wish to register every part on file and within the thoughts of the nation. Folks ought to know the way the Parliamentary system is working on this nation underneath PM Modi’s regime.”

Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi criticised the JPC course of, stating, “We haven’t seen such a JPC by which 10 MPs had been suspended. We’ve seen within the Parliament when many MPs had been suspended without delay, and the identical occurred immediately within the JPC… This has not occurred for the primary time, and it appears they (authorities) are happening a predetermined means.”

In the meantime, one other JPC member, TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee, commented, “What is going to the Speaker do? Your entire present is run by two individuals. Those that are sitting all over the place haven’t any energy to do something.”

(With inputs from companies)