Joint Committee of Parliament Formed to Examine Waqf (Amendment) Bill
GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 10th August. A joint parliamentary committee has been established to examine the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, with 31 members — 21 from the Lok Sabha and 10 from the Rajya Sabha. The committee is expected to submit its report by the first week of the next Parliament session.
On Friday, the Lok Sabha passed a motion to nominate 21 of its members to the committee. The motion was moved by Kiren Rijiju, the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Minority Affairs, who proposed that the Waqf (Amendment) Bill be referred to a joint committee of both Houses.
The Waqf (Amendment) Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Thursday and was referred to the joint parliamentary panel after a heated debate. The government asserted that the proposed law does not intend to interfere with the functioning of mosques, while the opposition criticized it as targeting Muslims and an attack on the Constitution.
As per the motion moved by Rijiju, the Rajya Sabha has been requested to nominate 10 of its members to the panel and communicate the names to the Lok Sabha.
The committee’s report will be submitted to the Lok Sabha by the last day of the first week of the next session.
The 21 Lok Sabha members appointed to the committee include:
- Jagdambika Pal (BJP)
- Nishikant Dubey (BJP)
- Tejasvi Surya (BJP)
- Aparajita Sarangi (BJP)
- Sanjay Jaiswal (BJP)
- Dilip Saikia (BJP)
- Abhijit Gangopadhyay (BJP)
- D K Aruna (BJP)
- Gaurav Gogoi (Congress)
- Imran Masood (Congress)
- Mohd Jawed (Congress)
- Maulana Mohibullah (SP)
- Kalyan Banerjee (TMC)
- A Raja (DMK)
- Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu (TDP)
- Dileshwar Kamait (JDU)
- Arvind Sawant (Shiv Sena-UBT)
- Balya Mama Suresh Gopinath Mhatre (NCP-Sharad Pawar)
- Naresh Mhaske (Shiv Sena)
- Arun Bharti (Lok Janshakti Party-Ram Vilas)
- Asaduddin Owaisi (AIMIM)
The names of the 10 members from the Rajya Sabha will be communicated in due course. The committee will play a crucial role in examining the provisions of the Waqf (Amendment) Bill and making recommendations to the Parliament.
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