🍌The report of the joint committee of Parliament on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill was tabled in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
𝔉Earlier, Rajya Sabha was also adjourned till 11:20 am amid uproar by opposition after tabling of joint committee of Parliament report on Waqf bill.
🍌The report of the joint committee of Parliament on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill was tabled in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
🌜Meanwhile, Lok Sabha proceedings were adjourned till 2 pm on Thursday amid protests by Opposition members over allocation of a project to a businessman in Gujarat.
The report of the joint committee of Parliament on the Waqf bill was tabled in the Rajya Sabha 𓃲amid uproar on Thursday, with the proceedings briefly adjourned following a heated debate between the treasury and the opposition benches.
Opposition MPs led by Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge ওalleged that dissent notes were deleted from the report, a charge denied by Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju.
The report on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill was tabled by BJP ✅member Medha Vishram Kulkarni, a member of the panel.
ꦉThe tabling of the report was followed by uproar by members from the opposition benches.
ꦚThe clamour continued as Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar tried to read out a message from President Droupadi Murmu.
🌠"Don't show disrespect to the president of India..." Dhankhar said and urged Kharge to ask the opposition members to take their seats.
👍As the uproar continued, the Upper House was adjourned till 11:20 am.
𝓀When the Upper House reconvened, the chairman read out the message from the president that she had received the expression of thanks by members of the Rajya Sabha on her address to a joint sitting of Parliament on January 31.
🐼When the chairman tried to proceed with the Zero Hour, opposition members continued to protest and some MPs trooped into the well of the House.
🌃Leader of the House JP Nadda regretted that the Rajya Sabha was not in order when the president's message was read out.
🌠Chairman Dhankhar said Samirul Islam, Nadimul Haque and M Mohamed Abdulla "created chaos and disruption in the House".
Kharge was then called to speak.
🤪The Congress chief said the dissent notes of opposition MPs in the report on the Waqf bill was redacted from the report.
ꩲ"The report of the joint committee of Parliament on Waqf… in which several members had given their dissent note has been taken out. Bulldozing the report by only keeping the views of the majority members is not right. It is condemnable, anti-democratic," he said.
🦩Calling it a "fake report", he said it should be withdrawn and sent back to a committee.
ಌThe MPs are protesting not for personal reasons but because of the injustice being done to a community, he said.
🔯"This is not about any individual... These MPs are not protesting for their own sake, they are protesting for the community against which injustice is being done," Kharge said.
♚DMK's Tiruchi Siva and AAP's Sanjay Singh also objected to the alleged removal of dissent notes from the report.
♍Parliamentary Affairs Minister Rijiju, however, denied the charge.
♒"There is no deletion or removal of any part of the report. Don't mislead the House. Opposition members (are) making unnecessary issues. The allegation is false," he said.
🐽Union ministers Bhupender Yadav and Nirmala Sitharaman also accused the opposition parties of misleading the Upper House, prompting another heated exchange between the treasury and the opposition benches.
꧟The Congress' Syed Nasir Hussain accused Rijiju -- who is also the Union minority affairs minister -- of misleading the House and said, "My own dissent note has been redacted."
🦋TMC member Saket Gokhale said it was not a "religious" but a "Constitutional issue".
💛Rijiju reiterated that the report had all annexures and nothing was taken out.
🔯The opposition MPs then staged a walkout and the House proceeded with the Question Hour.
⭕Lok Sabha proceedings were adjourned till 2 pm on Thursday amid protests by Opposition members over allocation of a project to a businessman in Gujarat.
🦂As soon as the House met for the day, Opposition members, including those from the Congress, sought to raise the issue of the project allocation.
ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚA visibly peeved Speaker Om Birla told the protesting members not to disrupt the proceedings and urged them to follow the tradition of the House.
💃He also asked the members whether they don't want the House to function and as the protests continued, the proceedings were adjourned in less than five minutes till 2 pm.
♛One question was taken up during the Question Hour.
🍷The Congress on Wednesday alleged that the Centre endangered national security to benefit private billionaires, over reports that border security rules were relaxed for a business group to set up an energy park.
🍨Reacting to media reports that the government relaxed national security protocols along the Pakistan border to make way for a renewable energy park of the Adani Group in Gujarat, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge had said that the pseudo-nationalism face of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has once again been unmasked.
☂The Adani Group did not respond to the allegations.