Bharatiya Janata Get together‘s MP Tejasvi Surya on Thursday claimed that the opposition tried to disrupt the proceedings of the joint parliamentary committee on the Waqf (Modification) Invoice assembly, bodily and verbally threatened each the witness and the Chairperson, and tore up committee paperwork.
BJP MP Surya wrote a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and stated that such conduct can’t be taken flippantly and requested to take disciplinary motion towards these answerable for this unruly and unparliamentary behaviour.
In a letter, Surya stated, “I want to deliver to your consideration the unlucky disruptions and inappropriate conduct that occurred in the course of the assembly of the joint parliamentary committee on the Waqf (Modification) Invoice, 2024, held on October 14, 2024. The Chairperson of the Committee, in his knowledge and upon my request, invited Shri Anwar Manippadi, former Chairman, Karnataka state minorities fee and Karnataka minorities improvement company, to depose earlier than the committee.”
He additional acknowledged that in his deposition, Manippadi mentioned a report he submitted in 2012 throughout his tenure. This report alleges large-scale encroachment or sale of roughly 2,000 acres of Waqf land, valued at round Rs. 2 lakh crore, to personal entities, implicating sure leaders of the Indian Nationwide Congress. The Manippady report was submitted to the Lokayukta for additional scrutiny and Upa Lokayukta Justice Anand, earlier than whom the report reached, authenticated the information of the Manippadi report and submitted his report in 2016.
“Regrettably, as quickly as this severe subject was dropped at the Committee’s consideration, opposition members disrupted the proceedings, verbally threatened each the witness and the Chairperson, and tore up committee paperwork. Additionally they walked close to to the place the witness and chairperson had been seated, tried to bodily threaten each, snatched the notes and papers that they had made and tore it,” the BJP MP stated.
“Their behaviour mirrored a whole disregard for Parliamentary decorum. Following this, they walked out of the assembly whereas making derogatory remarks in direction of different members current. Such conduct, together with threats directed at a witness and the Chairperson, can’t be taken flippantly. Within the curiosity of sustaining the dignity and decorum of Parliamentary proceedings, I request that you simply direct the involved Members of Parliament to stick to the foundations of conduct and parliamentary etiquette, and that disciplinary motion be initiated towards these answerable for this unruly and unparliamentary behaviour,” he added.
