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Oppn MPs suspended for a day from Waqf panel
The Morning Standard
|January 25, 2025
The meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the Waqf Amendment Bill witnessed unruly scenes on Friday after 10 Opposition MPs were suspended for a day amid accusations against chairman Jagdambika Pal of being partisan during the meeting.
Later, the suspended MPs shot off a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, alleging that Pal suspended them after he received a phone call during the meeting. The MPs said that the JPC chief does not have the power to suspend the members and urged Birla to instruct him to conduct the proceedings in a fair manner.
This story is from the January 25, 2025 edition of The Morning Standard.
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