Ruckus at House panel meet on Waqf Bill, 10 Opposition MPs suspended for a day

The suspended MPs see Trinamool Congress’s Kalyan Banerjee and Mohammed Nadimul Haque, Congress’s Syed Naseer Husain, Imran Masood and Mohammad Jawed, DMK’s A Raja and M M Abdulla, SP’s Mohibbullah Nadvi, and Shiv Sena (UBT)’s Arvind Sawant.

It is learnt that a ruckus broke retired arsenic Pal allegedly pushed for aboriginal information of the Bill and past rescheduled the clause-by-clause information of the Bill to accommodate Mirwaiz.

Heated arguments during the gathering led to a little adjournment of the proceedings. The Mirwaiz-led delegation appeared earlier the committee aft it reconvened.

Banerjee and Hussain stormed retired of the gathering and told reporters that the proceedings of the committee had go a “farce”. Banerjee said members had earlier requested the president to defer meetings owed to their commitments and helium had said helium would look into it.

“However, thing happened. Then we were told that a gathering would hap connected January 24 and 25 for clause-by-clause information of the Bill. So we each came. Then astatine midnight yesterday, we were told that the clause-by-clause gathering volition not hap connected January 24 arsenic a delegation from Kashmir is coming. Then they said this gathering would hap connected January 27. We objected. We said the House volition commencement connected January 31 and we each person commitments successful our constituencies,” Banerjee told The Indian Express.

Following this, it is learnt determination was sloganeering by Opposition MPs. BJP MP Nishikant Dubey is past learnt to person moved a question for suspension of the protesting MPs, pursuing which 10 members were suspended for a day.

Meanwhile, up of appearing earlier the committee, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq told reporters that helium powerfully opposed the Waqf Amendment Bill and favoured non-interference by the authorities successful matters of religion. “We anticipation our suggestions would beryllium heard and acted upon and nary specified measurement would beryllium taken that would marque Muslims consciousness that they are being disempowered,” helium said.

“The contented of Waqf is simply a precise superior matter, particularly for the radical of Jammu and Kashmir, arsenic it is simply a Muslim-majority state. Many radical person concerns regarding this, and we person prepared a elaborate memorandum addressing these concerns constituent by point. We privation the authorities to refrain from interfering successful Waqf matters,” Farooq said.

He claimed determination was already an ambiance of hostility successful Jammu and Kashmir erstwhile determination was speech of mosques and temples. “We judge nary measurement should beryllium taken that vitiates the ambiance successful J-K,” helium added.

Earlier, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was slated to conscionable Pal astatine his residence.

This is the archetypal clip that the Mirwaiz, who besides heads the virtually defunct Hurriyat Conference, has stepped retired of the Kashmir Valley aft the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution, which bestowed peculiar presumption connected the erstwhile authorities of Jammu and Kashmir.