New Delhi: The new legislation passed in the Lok Sabha on the Jallianwala Bagh Memorial Amendment Bill will not have members of the Jallianwala Bagh Memorial Committee, the National President of the Congress. Union Culture Minister Prahlad Singh Patel had tabled a bill in the Lok Sabha on Monday which passed on Friday. Now Congress Party President Jaliawala Bagh will no longer be a member of the National Monument Committee.

The name of the bill is Jallianwala Bagh National Monument Amendment Bill. However, Congress MPs strongly opposed the bill and said that the land for building the monument after the Jallianwala Bagh incident was given by the Congress party and decided to build the monument. However, the Jallianwala Bagh National Monument Act 1951 has been amended in the Lok Sabha today. When the first trustee was formed after the enactment of the law in 1951, senior Congress leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru, Saifuddin Kichlu and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad were made members of the Taumar Trustee.

The law provided for the creation of a trustee for the construction and maintenance of jallianwala bagh as a national monument in which the Congress Party president joined the committee as a member. Now, the Central Government has amended it. The amended bill removes the provision for inclusion of the Congress president as a member of the committee.

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