AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi has claimed that portions of dissent notes from Opposition MPs were redacted from the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) report on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024 before its submission to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla.

"Today, a group of Lok Sabha MPs, which included A Raja, Kalyan Banerjee, Imran Masood, Mohammad Jawed, Gaurav Gogoi, and me, went to meet the Speaker. We told him that many pages and paragraphs of our dissent notes have been redacted from the JPC report," said Owaisi.

He acknowledged that the Speaker directed the Secretary-General to restore dissenting portions wherever permissible under parliamentary rules. "Later, we sat in the Parliamentary library and included most of the redacted pages in the report, which will be presented in the Lok Sabha at 2 pm," he added.

However, Owaisi admitted that some paragraphs, particularly those that "expressed aspersions on the working of the committee," were not reinstated as they violated parliamentary norms.

The controversy over the JPC report's integrity has sparked fresh political debate, with the Opposition raising concerns over transparency and procedural fairness in parliamentary proceedings.