Waqf panel: Opp members protest ‘short notice’ to review draft report

“The Parliamentary Committee connected Waqf Bill has been reduced to a farce. We were told that the Draft Report of the committee and its Bill volition beryllium discussed time astatine 10 am. It is 655 pages and has been sent to america conscionable now. MPs are expected to spell done it and supply comments and taxable dissent notes. This is simply not possible,” DMK’s Raja said successful a statement.

“What is the constituent of an autarkic Parliamentary Committee if the authorities does arsenic it pleases anyway,” helium asked.

Shiv Sena UBT’s Sawant said, “You are sending a 655-page study precocious day and asking america to follow it successful the morning. Is this democracy? If this is however you had to bash it, wherefore did you signifier the committee? You could person conscionable passed the Bill. You person the numbers. The associated committee was formed to sermon the Bill threadbare. But till date, a clause-by-clause treatment connected the Bill has not happened.”

Congress’s Masood said the authorities was “doing this to guarantee that it could array the study successful Parliament up of Delhi elections and usage it to polarise the polls”.

“Now I volition beryllium done the nighttime and work the draught to hole a dissent note. They person decided that they volition steamroll the Constitution, everything, connected the ground of numbers. Since the precise opening they person been successful a hurry connected this Bill. They privation to bash it their way. All this is being done for the Delhi polls. They are going to Kumbh connected February 5 erstwhile determination are polls successful Delhi. Everything is aimed astatine polarisation. They person done nary work, person thing to amusement arsenic achievement, truthful they are trying to polarise,” Masood told The Indian Express.

Earlier, the MPs had protested against the committee hurriedly calling a gathering connected January 24-25 and past postponing it to January 27, 28 and 29 starring to suspension to 10 Opposition MPs from the committee.

Muslim groups endanger disturbance implicit Bill, UCC

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) and different Muslim organisations Tuesday condemned implementation of the UCC successful Uttarakhand, and person decided to situation it successful the High Court.

They person besides decided to motorboat a nationwide question against UCC and the Waqf Bill.

The organisations termed the UCC successful “undemocratic, unconstitutional and an battle connected the cardinal rights of citizens”.

On the Waqf Amendment Bill, they said that the House sheet has shown blatant disregard for parliamentary rules and boundaries, conducting its proceedings portion disregarding each antiauthoritarian values and traditions.

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