Waqf Bill: 31-member JPC constituted along with Owaisi and Imran Masood

A 31member Joint Parliamentary Committee including 21 Lok Sabha MPs and 10 Rajya Sabha MPs has been constituted to look into the Waqf BillUnion Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Friday proposed the names of 21 Lok Sabha MPs and 10 Rajya Sabha MPs in the Parliament for a joint parliamentary committee JPC to look into the Waqf Amendment Bill 2024Notably AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi and Congress MP Imran Masood have also been included in the committeeIn Lok Sabha Kiren Rijiju proposed the names of 21 Lok Sabha MPs for JPC into Waqf Amendment Bill 2024 also asked Rajya Sabha to recommend the names of 10 Members to be appointed to the JPC21 MPs from Lok Sabha who will be members of the JPC are Jagdambika Pal Nishikant Dubey Tejasvi Surya Aparajita Sarangi Sanjay Jaiswal Dilip Saikia Abhijit Gangopadhyay DK Aruna Gaurav Gogoi Imran Masood Mohammad Jawed Maulana Mohibullah Nadvi Kalyan Banerjee A Raja Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu Dileshwar Kamait Arvind Sawant Suresh Gopinath Naresh Ganpat Mhaske Arun Bharti and Asaduddin OwaisiAfter that the proposal was passed by the HouseIn Rajya Sabha Kiren Rijiju proposed the names of 10 Rajya Sabha MPs for JPC into the Waqf Amendment Bill 2024 21 Lok Sabha MPs also are a part of the Committee10 MPs from Rajya Sabha who will be members of the JPC are Brij Lal Dr Medha Vishram Kulkarni Gulam Ali Dr Radha Mohan Das Agrawal Syed Naseer Hussain Mohammed Nadeem Ul Haq V Vijayasai Reddy M Mohamed Abdulla Sanjay Singh and Dr Dharmasthala Veerendra HeggadeThe Motion was passed by the HouseMeanwhile the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha adjourned sine dieThis comes a day after Kiren Rijiju on Thursday introduced The Waqf Amendment Bill and proposed sending it to a joint parliamentary committee after Opposition parties objected to its provisionOpposition parties including the Congress DMK NCP Trinamool Congress and AIMIM strongly opposed the introduction of the bill saying its provisions were against federalism and the constitutional provisions While some members demanded the withdrawal of the bill many suggested that should be sent to a standing committeeThe Waqf Amendment Bill 2024 Waqf Act provides for the renaming of the Waqf Act 1995 as the Unified Waqf Management Empowerment Efficiency and Development Act 1995This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever