Waqf Bill Controversy: Opposition Stages Walkout Over ‘Biased’ JPC Report, Accuses Govt of Land Grab Agenda

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New Delhi: Rajya Sabha Opposition MPs staged a walkout on Thursday during discussions on the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) report on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, alleging bias and exclusion of dissenting opinions.

Opposition MPs claimed that the JPC had ignored the dissent notes submitted by panel members, making the report one-sided. JMM MP Mahua Maji and AAP MP Sanjay Singh warned that the bill was only the beginning and accused the government of planning to seize land belonging to other religious institutions as well.

Speaking to reporters, Mahua Maji said, “The INDIA Alliance staged a walkout against the report of the JPC on the Waqf Amendment Bill. The JPC has been biased. Today, the government is eyeing the land belonging to the Waqf; tomorrow, they will grab the properties of other religions.”

Congress MP and panel member Dr. Syed Naseer Hussain alleged that the JPC had not followed standard procedures and accused Minority Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju of misleading the House. “It (JPC report on Waqf) is biased and one-sided. The procedures were not followed in the JPC. Non-stakeholders were called, 97% of them opposed this bill. We were not given the minutes of the meeting… Key parts of our dissent notes were blurred, and the minister of minority affairs lied about it,” he claimed.

AAP MP Sanjay Singh echoed similar concerns, stating, “It is disappointing that the Opposition’s dissent notes have not been included in the report… This is just the beginning. Soon, they will bring a bill to possess the lands of Gurdwaras, Temples, and Churches and give this land to their capitalist friends.”

AIMIM MP and JPC member Asaduddin Owaisi revealed that a group of Lok Sabha MPs, including A Raja, Kalyan Banerjee, Imran Masood, Mohammad Jawed, and Gaurav Gogoi, approached Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to complain about several pages of dissent notes being redacted from the JPC report.

“Today, a group of Lok Sabha MPs, which included A Raja, Kalyan Banerjee, Imran Masood, Mohammad Jawed, Gaurav Gogoi, and me, went to meet the Speaker. We told him that many pages and paragraphs of our dissent notes had been redacted from the JPC report. He was kind enough to ask the Secretary-General to include from our dissent notes whatever the rules permitted. Later, we sat in the Parliamentary library and included most of the redacted pages in the report, which will be presented in the Lok Sabha at 2 pm,” Owaisi said.

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