Waqf Amendment Bill: Recently, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla constituted a JPC regarding the Waqf Bill. The Speaker has included 31 MPs in the JPC. This JPC will have 21 MPs from Lok Sabha and 10 MPs from Rajya Sabha. Jagdambika Pal has been made the chairman of this JPC. Owaisi and Imran Masood are also included in the JPC. Let us tell you that the Modi government had sent the Waqf Act Amendment Bill to the JPC yesterday. The Speaker also constituted a JPC on this today. It is called Joint Parliamentary Committee in Hindi, which means that it will have MPs from both the ruling and opposition parties. Let us tell you that in the meantime, the budget session proceedings of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha have been adjourned indefinitely.
Owaisi and Masood also includedLet us tell you that the Speaker decides how many MPs will be in the JPC from both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, and what is their number. The JPC formed by the Speaker regarding the Waqf Act currently includes 31 members. This JPC also includes AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi and Congress MP Imran Masood. The JPC formed for the Waqf Bill will decide which changes in the Waqf Act are right and which are wrong. Then this report will be sent to the government. But the government is not bound to accept the recommendations of the JPC.
These members of Lok Sabha will be included- Jagadambika Pal (BJP)
- Nishikant Dubey (BJP)
- Tejaswi Surya (BJP)
- Aparajita Sarangi (BJP)
- Sanjay Jaiswal (BJP)
- Dilip Saikia (BJP)
- Abhijit Gangopadhyay (BJP)
- DK Aruna (BJP)
- Gaurav Gogoi (Congress)
- Imran Masood (Congress)
- Mohammad Javed (Congress)
- Maulana Mohibullah Nadvi (Samajwadi Party)
- Kalyan Banerjee (TMC)
- A. Raja (DMK)
- Laavu Srikrishna (TDP)
- Dileshwar Kamat (JDU)
- Arvind Sawant (Shiv Sena-UBT)
- Suresh Gopinath Mahatre (NCP-SP)
- Naresh Ganpat Mhaske (Shiv Sena)
- Arun Bharti (LJP-Ram Vilas)
- Asaduddin Owaisi (AIMIM)
Rajya Sabha will have 10 members- Brij Lal
- Medha Vishram Kulkarni
- Ghulam Ali
- Radha Mohan Das Aggarwal
- Syed Naseer Hussain
- Nadimul Haque
- Vijay Sai Reddy
- Mohammad Abdullah
- Sanjay Singh
- Veerendra Hegde