JPC chairperson and BJP MP Jagdambika Pal NEW DELHI: With opposition MPs “boycotting” the scheduled study tour of members of the joint parliamentary committee on the Waqf Bill, the LS Secretariat has postponed the trips to Kolkata, Patna and Lucknow from Nov 12 to Nov 14, with a notification being issued on Monday.The secretariat decided…
JPC chairperson Jagdambika Pal (File photo) NEW DELHI: Opposition MPs in Joint Parliamentary Committee examining the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024 have written to LS Speaker Om Birla expressing dismay that despite their meeting with him over the panel’s functioning and assurance that grievances will be addressed, JPC chairperson Jagdambika Pal has gone ahead with state…
NEW DELHI: Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge took direct aim at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, accusing him of shielding Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch amid a growing wave of allegations.Kharge’s accused PM Modi of failing to address purported malpractices within Sebi under Buch’s leadership.“@narendramodi ji, You cannot shield…
NEW DELHI: The meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, on Monday witnessed tense moments as AAP member Sanjay Singh is learnt to have objected to the examination of Delhi Waqf Board administrator Ashwini Kumar, contending that the report submitted by him was not approved by the Delhi chief minister.According to…
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Kalyan Banerjee was suspended for a day following a dramatic altercation during a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) meeting on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill on Tuesday. Banerjee smashed a glass bottle and hurled it towards the committee’s chairperson, BJP MP Jagdambika Pal, injuring himself in the process. Pal condemned the…
Bharatiya Janata Party‘s MP Tejasvi Surya on Thursday claimed that the opposition tried to disrupt the proceedings of the joint parliamentary committee on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill meeting, physically and verbally threatened both the witness and the Chairperson, and tore up committee documents. BJP MP Surya wrote a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla…
Opposition MPs on Tuesday wrote to Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla raising concerns over “gross violations” of the parliamentary code of conduct in the Joint Parliamentary Committee meet on Waqf bill.“At the beginning of his remarks, Manippady circulated a note titled ‘Presentation on the Waqf Amendment Bill 2012 based on Karmataka Waqf Scam Report 2012’…
Amit Shah in Gurgaon (ANI photo) GURGAON: Home minister Amit Shah on Sunday asserted that the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, will be passed in the winter session of Parliament, setting the stage for a potential showdown with the opposition both inside and outside the House.“Waqf board law… we will fix it in the next session…
NEW DELHI: Congress on Friday pressed upon its demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into ‘Adani mega scam‘ saying that the Hindenburg report was only a “tip of the iceberg”.The US short seller said that Sebi chief Madhabi Puri Buch and her husband, Dhaval Buch, were involved with offshore funds implicated in the…
NEW DELHI: The political clash between Congress and the BJP intensified on Sunday after US-based short-seller Hindenburg Research levelled allegations against Sebi chairperson Madhabi Buch. The Congress party demanded immediate government action to address potential conflicts of interest in the regulator’s investigation of the Adani Group and called for a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) to…
