<p>New Delhi: Jagdambika Pal, chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee formed to examine the contentious <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/waqf">Waqf </a>Amendment Bill 2024, will move a motion in the<a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/lok-sabha"> Lok Sabha</a> on Thursday to extend the tenure of the Committee. </p><p>Earlier in the day the members of the Opposition staged yet another walkout to drive home their demand for an extended tenure. </p><p>Pal along with BJP Lok Sabha MP Dilip Saikia will move a motion to extend the JPC’s tenure. </p><p>“That this House do extend time for the presentation of the Report of the Joint Committee on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024 upto the last day of the Budget Session, 2025,” the motion as per the lower house’s List of Business stated. </p> .Waqf Amendment Bill issue rocks Bihar assembly.<p>A senior Opposition MP part of the panel said that if the motion is passed, which it likely will, then the Committee’s report will be presented to Parliament before the end of the next Budget session, which typically convenes between January to April, with a month-long recess in between. </p><p>The JPC was mandated to submit its report by the end of this month when it was formed in the last session of Parliament. However, the Opposition MPs stated that Pal tried to hurry through meetings and have complained to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday, urging an extension. </p><p>On Wednesday, at the sitting of the Committee, where representatives of the ministry of minority affairs ministry were scheduled to give a presentation, several Opposition MPs rose and reiterated their demand for an extension. </p> .<p>BJP MP Aparajita Sarangi said that as the Opposition MPs were about to stage a walkout, several BJP MPs tried to stop them. </p><p>“Many of the ruling party members went out of the room to request them to come and join the deliberations. The ruling party members also felt that there should be an extension, and so, it was unanimously resolved that the committee will now request the Speaker for an extension,” Sarangi said. </p> .Opposition members storm out of Waqf panel meeting, return later.<p>She added that while the Committee can now submit the report in the Budget session, it remains unclear whether the Bill will be reintroduced in the same session. </p><p>Wednesday’s meeting was the 29th meeting of the JPC. In the last meeting, Pal had said that with the ministry alone, the Committee had deliberated for more than 29 hours. </p><p>Opposition MPs, however, in their letter to Birla said that in a span of 25 meetings or so, several were held with “irrelevant” stakeholders, and that Pal ecen took a trip to Karnataka without informing the Committee. </p><p>They also pointed that instead of 44 amendments that the government claims the legislation has, it has over 100 and that representations from key states like Bihar, New Delhi and Uttar Pradesh have not been recorded. Birla had assured them of an extension then. </p>
<p>New Delhi: Jagdambika Pal, chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee formed to examine the contentious <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/waqf">Waqf </a>Amendment Bill 2024, will move a motion in the<a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/lok-sabha"> Lok Sabha</a> on Thursday to extend the tenure of the Committee. </p><p>Earlier in the day the members of the Opposition staged yet another walkout to drive home their demand for an extended tenure. </p><p>Pal along with BJP Lok Sabha MP Dilip Saikia will move a motion to extend the JPC’s tenure. </p><p>“That this House do extend time for the presentation of the Report of the Joint Committee on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024 upto the last day of the Budget Session, 2025,” the motion as per the lower house’s List of Business stated. </p> .Waqf Amendment Bill issue rocks Bihar assembly.<p>A senior Opposition MP part of the panel said that if the motion is passed, which it likely will, then the Committee’s report will be presented to Parliament before the end of the next Budget session, which typically convenes between January to April, with a month-long recess in between. </p><p>The JPC was mandated to submit its report by the end of this month when it was formed in the last session of Parliament. However, the Opposition MPs stated that Pal tried to hurry through meetings and have complained to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday, urging an extension. </p><p>On Wednesday, at the sitting of the Committee, where representatives of the ministry of minority affairs ministry were scheduled to give a presentation, several Opposition MPs rose and reiterated their demand for an extension. </p> .<p>BJP MP Aparajita Sarangi said that as the Opposition MPs were about to stage a walkout, several BJP MPs tried to stop them. </p><p>“Many of the ruling party members went out of the room to request them to come and join the deliberations. The ruling party members also felt that there should be an extension, and so, it was unanimously resolved that the committee will now request the Speaker for an extension,” Sarangi said. </p> .Opposition members storm out of Waqf panel meeting, return later.<p>She added that while the Committee can now submit the report in the Budget session, it remains unclear whether the Bill will be reintroduced in the same session. </p><p>Wednesday’s meeting was the 29th meeting of the JPC. In the last meeting, Pal had said that with the ministry alone, the Committee had deliberated for more than 29 hours. </p><p>Opposition MPs, however, in their letter to Birla said that in a span of 25 meetings or so, several were held with “irrelevant” stakeholders, and that Pal ecen took a trip to Karnataka without informing the Committee. </p><p>They also pointed that instead of 44 amendments that the government claims the legislation has, it has over 100 and that representations from key states like Bihar, New Delhi and Uttar Pradesh have not been recorded. Birla had assured them of an extension then. </p>