The opposition members of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on Waqf Invoice, will boycott the subsequent spherical of conferences starting November 9, Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee, an opposition member, declared on Thursday.
Banerjee put the blame on BJP’s Jagdambika Pal, the JPC chief, accusing him of ‘high-handedness’ and ‘arbitrary motion.’
“All of the opposition members have determined to boycott the tour. The chairman is working in an arbitrary and high-handed method,” Banerjee informed reporters at a press convention in Kolkata, PTI reported.
Starting Saturday, the panel will maintain conferences in Guwahati, Bhubaneswar, Kolkata, Patna, and Lucknow over the subsequent six days, with Sunday being a vacation in between.
In the meantime, Banerjee additional stated, “The opposition members met the Lok Sabha Speaker on November 5 and sought the deferment of the schedule. We additionally sought a discount within the variety of days of conferences of the JPC from two days every week to simply sooner or later per week or two consecutive days each fortnight.”
Speaker Om Birla, he claimed, had verbally agreed to ‘sympathetically’ contemplate their calls for and communicate to the chairman, however ‘nothing occurred thereafter.’
On why the opposition MPs needed the upcoming conferences to be rescheduled, the Trinamool chief famous that every one Members of Parliament even have ‘different essential official work’ and have to fulfill individuals of their respective constituencies.
Additional, he alleged that Waqf stakeholders weren’t being given sufficient time, whereas these with no stake within the Modification Invoice, have been being known as for conferences.
“Members from the ruling dispensation are working as per their very own agenda and never within the curiosity of the nation,” Banerjee added.
