31-member Parliamentary panel formed for Waqf Bill

A day after the contentious Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024 was referred to joint parliamentary committee (JPC), a 31-member panel including 21 Lok Sabha MPs and 10 Rajya Sabha MPs was constituted to look into the legislation.
Union parliamentary af fairs minister Kiren Rijiju proposed the names of 21 Lok Sabha MPs and 10 Rajya Sabha MPs for the JPC.
The 21 MPs from Lok Sabha who will be members of the JPC are Jagdambika Pal, Nishikant Dubey, Tejasvi Surya, Aparajita Sarangi, Sanjay Jaiswal, Dilip Saikia, Abhijit Gangopadhyay, DK Aruna, Gaurav Gogoi, Imran Masood, Mohammad Jawed, Maulana Mohibullah Nadvi, Kalyan Banerjee, A Raja, Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu, Dileshwar Kamait, Arvind Sawant, Suresh Gopinath, Naresh Ganpat Mhaske, Arun Bharti and Asaduddin Owaisi.
In Rajya Sabha, Kiren Rijiju proposed the names of 10 Rajya Sabha MPs - Brij Lal, Dr Medha Vishram Kulkarni, Gulam Ali, Radha Mohan Das Agrawal, Syed Naseer Hussain, Mohammed Nadeem Ul Haq, V Vijayasai Reddy, M. Mohamed Abdulla, Sanjay Singh and Dharmasthala Veerendra Heggade.
Opposition parties including Congress, DMK, NCP, Trinamool Congress and AIMIM have strongly opposed the bill saying its provisions were against federalism and constitutional provisions. While some members demanded the withdrawal of the bill, many suggested that it should be sent to a standing committee.
The Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, Waqf Act provides for the renaming of the Waqf Act, 1995, as the Unified Waqf Management, Empowerment, Efficiency and Development Act, 1995.