Probe BJP MP Nishikant Dubey’s conduct, says Pasmanda group after remarks on Waqf Bill feedback
There has been an attempt to tarnish the image of Muslims, said the All India Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz.
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Calling for a probe into the conduct of Bharatiya Janata Party MP Nishikant Dubey, the All India Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz has said that attempts have been made to tarnish the image of the Muslim community in the name of giving suggestions to the joint parliamentary committee scrutinising the 2024 Waqf Amendment Bill, The Indian Express reported on Monday.
The group, which represents the interests of Dalit and other backward caste Muslims, was responding to Bharatiya Janata Party MP Nishikant Dubey’s remarks last month that an investigation should be conducted into the source of the nearly 1.2 crore feedback submissions received by the parliamentary committee on the bill.
Dubey, the Lok Sabha member from Jharkhand’s Godda, is part of the parliamentary committee.
In a letter to the parliamentary committee chairperson Jagdambika Pal, Dubey said that the probe should cover the possible roles of fundamentalist organisations, individuals such as preacher and televangelist Zakir Naik and foreign entities such as Pakistan’s intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence and China.
On October 3, All India Pasmanda Muslim chief and former Rajya Sabha MP Ali Ansari wrote to Pal, saying that no attempts should be made by any member of the parliamentary committee to create doubts about its confidentiality, according to The Indian Express.
“We saw a statement by a committee member [Dubey] that...
