The role of the opposition MPs in the parliamentary committee to scrutinise the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, guaranteed by the law, and it’s failure leading to seeking a meeting with the Lok Sabha Speaker, Om Birla over its chairperson Jagdambika Pal’s allegedly unilateral decisions and attempts to “bulldoze” proceedings without giving the members reasonable time to prepare themselves, testifies to this intolerance amounting to undoing the smooth functioning of the parliamentary system of a democratic country.