Several opposition leaders walked out of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill meeting on Monday in protest. Among those who walked out were AAP MP Sanjay Singh, the DMK’s Mohammed Abdulla, the Congress’s Naseer Hussain, and Mohamed Jawed.
The members who walked out said the Delhi Waqf Board administrator, who had appeared before the panel, had made changes to the presentation without the Delhi government’s knowledge.
AAP MP Sanjay Singh, the DMK’s Mohammed Abdulla, the Congress’s Naseer Hussain, and Mohamed Jawed were among those who left the meeting.
They said the MCD Commissioner and the administrator of the Delhi Waqf Board, Ashwini Kumar, altered the original version of the Waqf Board report, in which Chief Minister Atishi’s nod was not sought.
The Committee called upon the delegates of the Delhi Waqf Board, Haryana Waqf Board, Punjab Waqf Board, and Uttarakhand Waqf Board and Uttarakhand Waqf Board to record their Oral evidence on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024.
The Committee also summoned Call for Justice (a Group led by Chander Wadhwa, Trustee), Waqf Tenant Welfare Association, Delhi, and Harbin’s Dunkel, President of Residents Welfare Association (All Blocks), B.K. Dutt Colony, New Delhi, to record their views and suggestions.
