Senior BJP MP Jagdambika Pal has been appointed chairperson of the Joint Committee of Parliament (JPC), which will examine the Waqf (Amendment) Bill. In a special conversation with Aaj Tak, Jagdambika Pal said that the Waqf Amendment Bill is not going on the back burner but the JPC will submit its report in the first week of the next session.
What did Jagdambika Pal say?
In a special conversation with Aaj Tak, Jagdambika Pal said that if the government wanted, it could have brought the bill and passed it in two hours. We had majority in the House. But this issue has been taken to JPC so that the consent of all the people can be taken. This step has been taken only to know the concerns of the opposition and Waqf.
The report will be submitted in the first week of the next session…
Jagdambika Pal said that the Lok Sabha Speaker has said that we have to submit the JPC report by the first week of the next session. There is only 3 months time, so everyone wants a good law to be made and good amendments to be made. He said that there is no question of this bill being shelved. The first meeting of JPC is on 22nd August. In this we will listen to everyone’s views.
He said that amendments keep coming, but if there is any doubt in the minds of people, any amendment or suggestion, then it should come forward.
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Common people should get benefits…
He said that the JPC meeting is so excellent that its confidentiality is not violated. Everyone will express their views and everyone will have only one objective that the common people get benefit from it. We are confident that this will be a good bill.
He said that all the members appointed in JPC are responsible people. I also talk to everyone and when I have been given the responsibility, we would definitely like to reach a consensus. Let us tell you that there are 31 members in the Joint Committee – 21 from Lok Sabha and 10 from Rajya Sabha.
Let us tell you that the bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha and after vigorous debate it was sent to a joint committee of the Parliament, in which the government said that the proposed law does not intend to interfere in the functioning of mosques and the opposition It was called targeting Muslims and an attack on the Constitution.