Bharatiya Janata Party 's MP Tejasvi Surya on Thursday claimed that the opposition tried to disrupt the proceedings of the joint parliamentary committee on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill meeting, physically and verbally threatened both the witness and the Chairperson, and tore up committee documents. BJP MP Surya wrote a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and said that such conduct cannot be taken lightly and requested to take disciplinary action against those responsible for this unruly and unparliamentary behaviour. In a letter, Surya said, "I wish to bring to your attention the unfortunate disruptions and inappropriate conduct that occurred during the meeting of the joint parliamentary committee on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, held on October 14, 2024.
The Chairperson of the Committee, in his wisdom and upon my request, invited Shri Anwar Manippadi, former Chairman, Karnataka state minorities commission and Karnataka minorities development corporation, to depose before the committee." He further stated that during his deposition, Manippadi discussed a report he submitted in 2012 during his tenure. This report alleges large-scale encroachment or sale of approximately 2,000 acres of Waqf land, valued at around Rs.
2 lakh crore, to private entities, implicating certain leaders of the Indian National Congress. The Manippady report was submitted to the Lokayukta for further scrutiny and Upa Lokayukta Justice Anand, before whom the report reached, authenticated the facts of the.
