Ex-Union minister P P Choudhary, a BJP MP from Rajasthan’s Pali, is set to lead the joint parliamentary committee (JPC) on ‘one nation, one election’ bills. Speaker Om Birla is said to have finalised the names of 21 Lok Sabha members. The rest 10 MPs in the panel will be from Rajya Sabha.The JPC has…
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (left) and Anurag Singh Thakur / File photos NEW DELHI: The central government will be sending the bills meant for simultaneous elections to the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), comprising 31 parliamentarians, including Congress leaders Priyanka Gandhi, Manish Tewari, BJP’s Anurag Singh Thakur and Anil Baluni.The JPC for the “One Nation One Election”…
Congress MP Hibi Eden (L) confers with BJP MP and Waqf Amendment Bill JPC chairman Jagdambika Pal at Parliament House on Wednesday NEW DELHI: After protests by opposition members on the panel, the Joint Parliamentary Committee scrutinising the Waqf (Amendment) Bill passed a resolution seeking extension of time for presentation of its report till the…
NEW DELHI: TMC MP and Waqf JPC member Kalyan Banerjee on Wednesday, while leaving the second round of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) meeting on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill came out shouting, “Dispute resolved, all is well.” Banerjee, however, avoided further questions while repeatedly saying, “Whatever has to be said will be said by the…
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…
