Parliament again not held on Adani and Sambhal issue, tenure of Waqf Committee extended

New Delhi: On Thursday, members of opposition parties including Congress, Samajwadi Party (SP) created ruckus in the Lok Sabha over the matter related to Adani Group and the issue of violence in Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh. Due to which the House meeting was adjourned till 11 am on Friday after one adjournment. Congress and SP MPs again started sloganeering when the House proceedings started at 12 noon after a one-time adjournment due to uproar by opposition members over Adani issue and Sambhaal violence. Presiding Chairman Krishna Prasad Tennetti got the necessary documents placed on the table of the House.

Amid sloganeering by opposition members, the House approved extension of time for presenting the report of the Joint Committee of Parliament on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill till the last day of the Budget Session, 2025. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju targeted Congress and its allies over the uproar in the House.

he/she said that in the meeting of the Business Advisory Committee, everyone together had decided which bill would come and when it would come…there are separate rules for discussion on the remaining issues. Rijiju said, here Congress and its allies have tried to create ruckus without any rules and by breaking the rules. We condemn it. This is not right.

he/she said that many members want to raise issues of their areas. Rijiju said that the opposition members had demanded to extend the tenure of the Joint Committee related to the Waqf Bill and now when the proposal related to it came, the Congress and its allies were raising slogans.

After this, at around 12:05 in the afternoon, the Presiding Chairman adjourned the proceedings of the meeting till 11 am on Friday. Earlier, the House meeting had to be adjourned till 12 noon on Thursday morning, about seven minutes after it began. With the commencement of the House proceedings, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who was elected as a member of the House from Wayanad seat in Kerala, and Ravindra Chavan of the same party, who was elected from Nanded in Maharashtra, took oath as members of the Lok Sabha.