New Delhi:
The Opposition MPs have boycotted the Joint Parliamentary assembly to debate the Waqf modification invoice and wrote to the Speaker demanding that the Committee chairman be eliminated. Alleging that the Committee is biased, they’ve sought time from the Speaker to debate the difficulty. The Opposition members have alleged {that a} presentation on the invoice by Anwar Manippadi, former Chairman of Karnataka State Minorities Fee and Karnataka Minorities Improvement Company, was not in regards to the Invoice. Mr Anwar, they alleged, was simply utilizing the event malign the Karnataka authorities and Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge.
“We have now boycotted as a result of the committee shouldn’t be functioning with the ideas and norms… When it comes to ethics and precept, they’re improper,” stated Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Arvind Sawant.
The Waqf (Modification) Invoice was launched within the Lok Sabha on August 8 and amid large objections from the Opposition, was referred to a Joint Parliamentary Committee. The committee — which has to submit its report back to the Lok Sabha by the top of the primary week of the following parliament session — is now holding a sequence of casual discussions with varied stakeholders.
The Waqf (Modification) Invoice, 2024, seeks to convey sweeping reforms, introducing digitisation, stricter audits, transparency, and authorized mechanisms to reclaim illegally occupied Waqf properties.