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The panel will hold meetings in Guwahati, Bhubaneswar, Kolkata, Patna and Lucknow for the next six days, with Sunday off in between. Meanwhile, Banerjee further said opposition members met the Lok Sabha Speaker on November 5 and demanded postponement of the event. We also demanded reduction in the number of days of JPC meetings from two days a week to only one day per week or two consecutive days every fortnight.
Opposition members of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the Waqf Bill will boycott the next round of meetings starting from November 9, Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee, an opposition member, announced on Thursday. Banerjee blamed this on BJP’s JPC chief Jagdambika Pal, accusing her of ‘tyranny’ and ‘arbitrary action’. Banerjee told a conference in Kolkata that all opposition members have decided to boycott the tour. The Speaker is acting arbitrarily and arbitrarily.
The panel will hold meetings in Guwahati, Bhubaneswar, Kolkata, Patna and Lucknow for the next six days, with Sunday off in between. Meanwhile, Banerjee further said opposition members met the Lok Sabha Speaker on November 5 and demanded postponement of the event. We also demanded reduction in the number of days of JPC meetings from two days a week to only one day per week or two consecutive days every fortnight.
He claimed that Speaker Om Birla had verbally agreed to consider their demands ‘sympathetically’ and talk to the Chairman, but ‘nothing happened after that’. Asked why opposition MPs wanted to reschedule the upcoming meetings, the Trinamool leader said all Members of Parliament also have ‘other important official work’ and have to meet people in their respective constituencies.
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