Bhubaneswar: Lok Sabha Member from Bhubaneswar Aparajita Sarangi has been nominated to the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on Waqf Amendment Bill, 2024.
Upon announcement of the JPC, Sarangi took to micro-blogging platform X and stated: “I am honoured to be made part of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on ‘THE WAQF ( AMENDMENT) BILL, 2024’ in the Lok Sabha today. Will put in my best.”
The proposal to form the JPC, along with the names of its constituent members, was proposed by Parliamentary Affairs and Minority Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju in the Lok Sabha, earlier this month.
The Lok Sabha members part of the JPC are BJP MPs Jagdambika Pal, Nishikant Dubey, Tejasvi Surya, Aparajita Sarangi, Sanjay Jaiswal, Dilip Saikia, Abhijit Gangopadhyay and DK Aruna.
Congress MPs Gaurav Gogoi, Imran Masood and Mohammad Jawed, Samajwadi Party (SP) MP Maulana Mohibullah Nadvi and Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Kalyan Banerjee are also in JPC.
DMK MP A Raja, Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu, Dileshwar Kamait, Arvind Sawant, Suresh Gopinath, Naresh Ganpat Mhaske, Arun Bharti and AIIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi are also members of the JPC.
The Rajya Sabha members in JPC are Brij Lal, Dr Medha Vishram Kulkarni, Gulam Ali, Dr Radha Mohan Das Agrawal, Syed Naseer Hussain, Mohammed Nadeem Ul Haq, V Vijayasai Reddy, M Mohamed Abdulla, Sanjay Singh and Dr Dharmasthala Veerendra Heggade.
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