Around half-a-dozen MPs present in the meeting of Parliamentary Minority Consultative Committee on Thursday staged a walkout after their demand for offering condolence for lynching victims, including Junaid, was denied by Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.
Naqvi was deliberating in the committee with the MPs on the issue of multi-sectoral development programme when the issue was raised by some of the MPs. They sought a condolence for those who were lynched in the recent past on the issues relating to the beef controversies.
Naqvi, however, did not agree to the demand which prompted the six MPs JD(U)'s Ali Anwar Ansari, E T Mohammed Basheer from Muslim league, Idris Ali from TMC, Joy Abraham from Kerala Congress and M I Shanavas and Mausam Noor from Congress, to walk out from the meeting.
"In today's meeting all six MPs, including myself, requested Naqviji to condemn the lynching of innocent boy Junaid and other such incidents. We also wanted to place it on record in the proceedings of the meeting," Ansari said.
The members also sought a two-minute silence be observed during the meeting as mark of respect for those killed by mobs.
However, sources said, Naqvi rejected the MPs' demand as it was "not part of the meeting's agenda".
