Mahua Moitra, Member of Parliament from Krishnanagar in Lok Sabha, has challenged the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, on the grounds, inter alia, that the Parliamentary rules and practices were violated during the law-making process, contributing to the unconstitutionality of the 2025 Act.
This is the first petition out of the many filed so far where it has been contended that the Chairperson of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) flouted the parliamentary rules and practices both at the stage of consideration and adoption of the draft report of the JPC on the Bill and at the stage of presentation of the said report before the Parliament.
The petitioner states that the draft report…