The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) is set to meet to discuss the 'Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024' in Bhubaneswar, the JPC Chairman, Jagdambika Pal, announced that 16 delegations have requested to present their views to the committee, reported news agency ANI.

Pal stated, "Today also JPC will meet in Bhubaneswar, in which 16 delegations have expressed their desire to appear before the JPC, which includes High Court lawyers, Islamic scholars, Odisha government officials, various social and minority organisations. I hope good suggestions will come and the entire JPC will consider them. We have covered Maharashtra, Gujarat, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, now we have to cover Lucknow, Patna, Kolkata."