NEW DELHI — The second meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) held to discuss the Waqf (Amendment) Bill 2024 witnessed heated arguments on Friday between the BJP members and MPs from the Opposition camp, while the Muslim bodies invited to present their opinion submitted their reservations to the proposed amendments. The first round of the JPC meeting on the Waqf Bill was held on August 22. The next two meetings will be held on September 5 and 6. During the marathon meeting on Friday, at one point the Opposition MPs also staged a walkout in the course of voicing their disagreements to the proposed Bill. According to sources, the BJP parliamentarians were frequently interrupted by the Opposition MPs during the discussions on the Waqf Bill. When the BJP MPs complained about not being allowed to present their views properly, the Opposition MPs accused their counterparts of not following ‘democratic norms’, and resorting to making personal remarks. In the course of the debate, heated arguments also took place between BJP’s Dilip Saikia and AAP’s Sanjay Singh. Singh, attacking the BJP, said the party neither understands the meaning of the Constitution nor follows it. The AAP Rajya Sabha MP also said...