Waqf JPC panel chief agrees for tenure extension after opposition walk out

Jagdambika Pal, Chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Wakf Amendment Bill and BJP MP Dilip Saikia will present a proposal in the Lok Sabha tomorrow to extend the time for presenting the report of the Joint Committee on Wakf (Amendment) Bill, 2024 till the last day of the Budget Session, 2025.

Opposition leaders on Wednesday walked out of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) meeting on the Waqf Amendment Bill, saying that the chairman of the panel expressed his intention of tabling the report's draft in the Lok Sabha on November 29.

They demanded extension of the panel's tenure as many state boards were yet to appear before the panel.

AAP MP and JPC member Sanjay Singh said that submitting a draft report before all stakeholders are heard and the JPC tour is complete is "wrong".

"The Speaker had assured us that he would extend the time of the JPC... Sidelining all these things you are saying that the draft report is ready to submit," he said, adding that the governments of Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh were yet to be heard.

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