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The Centre referred the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, tabled connected August 8, to the JPC pursuing the Opposition’s objections. (Express Photo)
The Opposition members successful the Joint Parliament Committee (JPC) connected the Waqf Amendment Bill 2024 met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla connected Monday and requested a tenable hold to the panel’s tenure.
In a missive fixed to the Speaker, the Opposition members wrote that the committee had its archetypal gathering connected August 22. They stated that the committee had held lone 25 sittings, including those wherever presentations were made by “various irrelevant” organisations and individuals. At the aforesaid time, they wrote, assorted authorities governments including Bihar, New Delhi and Uttar Pradesh are yet to contiguous their views earlier the committee and assorted stakeholder organisations were inactive seeking clip to contiguous their views.
“It indispensable beryllium noted that the Waqf Amendment Bill is an expansive authorities that involves galore large changes to existing law. These changes volition impact a ample conception of India’s population. Therefore a specified 3 months’ clip earlier the study is finalised is not lone inadequate but whitethorn effect successful improper recommendations. In bid for due consultation and deliberation, the committee’s tenure indispensable beryllium extended by a tenable time,” the members wrote successful the letter.
They added that if Bills are discussed simply arsenic a formality, without giving a substantive accidental for radical to contiguous their views, it volition impact the legitimacy of the legislative process. “This volition unluckily person an adverse interaction connected the majesty of Parliament,” they wrote.
The Centre referred the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, tabled connected August 8, to the JPC pursuing the Opposition’s objections. It tasked the sheet to taxable a study by the extremity of the archetypal week of the wintertime session, which is scheduled to beryllium held from November 25 to December 20.
The committee comprises 21 members from the Lok Sabha and 10 from the Rajya Sabha and includes 13 Opposition members (nine from the Lower House and 4 from the Upper House).
The Bill proposes to radically change the Waqf Act 1995 with immoderate of its provisions specified arsenic empowering the territory collector, alternatively of the Waqf Tribunal, to determine disputes and including non-Muslims successful the waqf boards drafting fierce disapproval from Opposition quarters.
The missive is signed by MPs including Asaduddin Owaisi, A Raja, Mohibbullah and Mohammad Jawed.
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