New Delhi, Jan 24 (Reporter) The suspended Waqf Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) members on Friday wrote to the Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla urging him to "instruct the Chairman to conduct the proceedings in a transparent and fair manner". The suspended members through a letter signed by them alleged, "The Chairman spoke on phone with somebody and suddenly and surprisingly he ordered our suspension with shouting". The members have urged the Speaker to "instruct the Chairman to conduct the proceedings in a transparent and fair manner" and "postpone the 27th meeting" so that the Opposition members can get adequate time to put forth their claims without any departure from the rules and procedure. They further said, "It is our opinion that the Chairman of a JPC does not have the power to suspend the members of the Committee". Giving about today's development, the members said, "When the meeting started today at 11 AM , we the members of the Opposition vehemently raised our voice with utmost respect against the way of conducting the business by the Chairman." The members in the letter said "We highlighted the unilateral as well as the unfair manner of functioning of JPC by ignoring the due process contemplated in the rules. It is respectfully submitted that since the erstwhile served notice scheduled for the meeting on 24th and 25th, we the members designed our programmes in the Constituencies/States from 27 to 30th as the Parliament session starts on 31st and thereby prayed for postponement of the 27th meeting". "While we put forth these reasonable claims in civilised manner to the Chairman, he has not even attemptred to respond. As we all felt humiliated, we stood and raised our voice democratically to hear our our demands. Meanwhile, the Chairman spoke in phone with somebody and suddenly and surprisingly, he ordered our suspension with shouting," the letter said. Earlier in the day, ten Opposition MPs were suspended for a day after ruckus broke out during a JPC meeting on the Waqf Amendment Bill 2024 here. The suspended MPs are Kalyan Banerjee (TMC), Md Jawed (Congress), A Raja (DMK), Asaduddin Owaisi (AIMIM), Nasir Hussain (Congress), Mohibullah (Samajwadi Party), M. Abdullah (DMK), Arvind Sawant (Shiv Sena (UBT), Nadeem ul Haq (TMC) and Imran Masood (Congress)...////...