Opposition MPs to boycott Waqf Bill parliamentary committee meetings, allege chairman ‘working for agenda’

Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Kalyan Bandopadhyay successful a property league connected Thursday said that the boycott was decided connected aft the Opposition members wrote to and met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, alleging that Pal was “arbitrarily fixing meetings from greeting to night” and being “high-handed”. While Birla had “agreed that the meetings were hectic and said helium would see deferring them,” the Opposition claimed that “nothing has been done”.

“(Pal) is calling radical from organisations to the gathering per his ain choice… radical who are precise adjacent to the BJP and person nary stakes (in the functioning of the Waqf bill). Percentage-wise, they are higher than those who person stakes,” said Bandopadhyay.

He added, “The president is moving with an docket and not for nationalist interest… We person decided to boycott the upcoming circuit of the JPC… The upcoming gathering was scheduled from November 9 onwards. Members were scheduled to be meetings successful 5 cities successful six days.”

“We person pointed retired earlier that the president ne'er held meetings successful consultation with us… I person Jagadhatri puja successful my constituency. We person by-polls here. In Jharkhand, determination are elections; naturally, galore of america person to determination astir the country,” Bandopadhyay further said.

The JPC was formed to purpose towards a larger nationalist inaugural to betterment the Waqf Act, 1995, and guarantee that waqf properties are utilized for the “greater bully of the community”. The act, which was created to modulate waqf properties, has agelong faced allegations of mismanagement, corruption, and encroachments.