The deputy of the Trinamool Congress urges the speaker of Lok Sabha to address the legal problems in the WAQF Bill report | India news

NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress MP of Lok Sabha Kalyan Banerjee, member of the Joint parliamentary committee (JPC) in the WAQF (amendment) bill, 2024, has requested Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla will intervene and solve some “legal” problems related to the draft panel report that was expected to be presented in the house on Monday, but finally did not appear.
In two detailed letters to the speaker, dated February 3, Banerje caught Birla’s attention to the problems of – suspension of the members of the JPC by the president of the panel and the elimination of dissent notes of 11 members, of the draft that there were been prepared to appear to the house.
Citing the rules of the house, Banerjee, who had been suspended twice from the JPC, declared in his letter that the members of the JPC, including him, was suspended by the president of JPC, which is “illegal”, since only the speaker It can suspend members and nothing from. He also wrote that he could go to the Court of Justice, but he has not done so, since he has confidence in the speaker and hopes the problem, such as the custodian of the house.
In his second letter, Banerje has said that the president of JPC has eliminated the dissident notes of the draft of the report at the last moment, which again, according to Lok Sabha guidelines, only the speaker has the right to do.
According to the sources, Banerje had spoken with Birla on Saturday after the presentation of the budget and had asked for his intervention in the matter. After which he wrote both letters on Monday.
“It is claimed that the suspension of a member of a joint parliamentary committee by the president and the members of the majority of any committee is totally illegal and beyond the scope of the rules of procedure and behavior of the business in Lok Sabha (Rule 373) … Of those mentioned, the suspension orders that have issued me are complete The honorable speaker can decide in the question and I believe and trust that he will decide the question about merit, according to the law, ”Banerjee wrote.
“If I do not question the order of suspension, the legality of the suspension order, then the future generation of this nation will blame me for not raising such a vital question,” he added.
“The elimination can only be done under clause 91 of the instructions issued by the speaker of Lok Sabha …”, said Banerjee, while saying: “Last Saturday, we discovered that on the website, the recommendations of JPC and dissenting notes. loaded with the draft.