"Speaker has very patiently heard us...": TMC's Kalyan Banerjee after Opposition MPs in JPC on Waqf Bill meet Om Birla

New Delhi [India], November 5 (ANI): Opposition MPs in the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the Waqf Amendment Bill met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday regarding their issues.
After coming out of the meeting, Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee said that the Speaker has assured them that he will look into their "grievances."
"When we come (in the JPC meeting) the BJP leaders don't come. If we won't be there the quorum will not be fulfilled. We are serious and sincere. Many such issues are there that we have raised to the Speaker. It was a very nice discussion. The Speaker has very patiently heard us and has said that he will look into the grievances which we have pointed out there. He was very kind to us," Banerjee told ANI.
AAP Rajya Sabha MP, Sanjay Singh emphasized that they have put forth their views with the Lok Sabha Speaker.

"Whatever our views are; we have discussed them with the Speaker. These things cannot be said in public because there is a limit to the committee and the Speaker. Whatever our problem was, we have put it before him and he has assured to take a decision after carefully considering it," Singh said.
Last month, Banerjee was suspended for a day over his alleged unruly conduct during the JPC meeting on the Waqf bill.
The JPC's efforts are part of a larger national initiative to reform the Waqf Act and ensure that waqf properties are used for the greater good of the community.
The Waqf Act, 1995, which was created to regulate waqf properties, has long faced allegations of mismanagement, corruption and encroachments.
The Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024 seeks to bring sweeping reforms, introducing digitisation, stricter audits, transparency and legal mechanisms to reclaim illegally occupied properties.
The JPC is holding a series of meetings to gather input from government officials, legal experts, Waqf Board members and community representatives from different states and Union Territories, aiming for the most comprehensive reform possible. (ANI)