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The Lok Sabha cleared the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India (Amendment) Bill, 2021 and adjourned till tomorrow. The Opposition intensified its noisy protests in Lok Sabha on Wednesday over Pegasus snooping, farm laws and other issues with some unruly members even hurling papers and torn placards in the House, but the government went ahead with its legislative agenda and three bills were passed amid the din. The House was adjourned repeatedly as an unrelenting opposition created uproar, repeating the scenes of the last over one week. As the proceedings began, opposition members trooped into the Well of the House, raising slogans and holding placards against the government over a number of issues including snooping allegations linked to Israeli spyware Pegasus. Speaker Om Birla continued with the Question Hour despite disruptions. This was for the first time that Lok Sabha completed the Question Hour in the Monsoon session which began on July 19. As members from the Congress, Trinamool Congress and other parties continued with the sloganeering, Birla was seen going through a book on House procedures. Soon after the Question Hour ended, Speaker Birla left the House and Rajendra Agrawal took over. When papers were being laid, Congress members Gurjeet Aujala, TN Prathapan, Hibi Eden and some others threw business papers of the day, some torn papers as well as placards at the Chair. A piece of the torn placard landed in the press gallery just above the Speaker’s podium. However, Agrawal continued with the proceedings. The members repeatedly threw papers at the Chair and later towards the Treasury benches. One of the papers landed near the seat of Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi. The Chair then adjourned the proceedings till 12:30 PM and the House was adjourned for the day after a few more brief adjournments. The government was contemplating to move suspension motion against Congress MPs who created ruckus in the House. Some Opposition MPs met Speaker and he cautioned them, and it looks unlikely that disciplinary action will be taken against them. In the middle of the protests, Lok Sabha passed the IBC amendment bill without a debate after Minister of State for Corporate Affairs Rao Inderjit Singh moved it for consideration and passage. The bill among other things provides for a pre-packaged resolution process for stressed MSMEs. Singh said the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Bill, 2021, will replace the ordinance that was promulgated on April 4 as part of efforts to provide relief to MSMEs adversely impacted by the pandemic. Lok Sabha also approved the first batch of supplementary demands authorising the government to spend an additional Rs 23,675 crore, including Rs 17,000 crore for the health ministry, in the current financial year. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman introduced the supplementary demands for grants and relevant appropriation bills. According to the first batch of supplementary demands for grants tabled in Lok Sabha by Sitharaman on July 20, although the gross additional expenditure is over Rs 1.87 lakh crore in 2021-22, the actual cash outgo will only be Rs 23,674.81 crore as the remaining spending will be met through savings and higher receipts and recoveries. It approved the relevant appropriation bills, authorising the government to withdraw funds from the Consolidated Fund of India to meet additional expenditure. Meanwhile, the meeting of the Information and Technology Committee, led by former minister and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, was also adjourned on Wednesday because of the lack of quorum and a face-off between BJP and Opposition MPs over the Pegasus row. Sources say that the members of the BJP — including Nishikant Dubey, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Sanjay Seth, Locket Chatterjee and others — went to the committee meeting but did not sign after which the meeting had to be called off because in the Opposition camp only nine MPs were present and a quorum required at least 10 MPs to be present.
Parliament Monsoon Session Today News Updates: RS, LS adjourned for the day amid protests from Opposition over Pegasus row
Parliament Monsoon Session Today Live News Updates: The Lok Sabha cleared the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India (Amendment) Bill, 2021 and adjourned till tomorrow
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LS adjourns till tomorrow
LS passes Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India (Amendment) Bill, 2021
RS adjourns till tomorrow
The House adjourned till 11 am tomorrow after clearing the Factoring Regulation (Amendment) Bill, 2021, ANI reported.
LS, RS reconvene amid sloganeering
Slatement on Pegasus discussion continues
The stalemate between the Opposition and Centre over a discussion on a discusssion on the Pegasus issue continues with the Opposition insisting on a discussion, sources told News18.
The TMC has demanded that the governemnt at least make a statement saying government isn’t involved in the Pegasus issue. However, no consensus has been reached and the logjam continues, as per sources.
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Shahsi Tharoor reacts to Nishikant Dubey’s Privilege Motion notice
“No constituted procedure followed in introducing Privilege Motion. It requires Speaker to get House’s consent & 25 members to stand & support. It wasn’t done. Therefore the Privilege Motion has no validity whatsoever: Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on IT, Shashi Tharoor on BJP MP Nishikant Dubey’s privilege motion against him.” said Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on BJP MP Nishikant Dubey’s privilege motion against him.
Dubey had moved the privilege motion on Wednesday and demanded the removal of Tharoor from the post of Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on IT accusing him of discriminatory use of his position
Rajyasabha: TMC MPs raise slogans, catcall at Chair
Several Opposition MPs were in the Well since the time the Rajya Sabha reconvened at 12.30 pm. The members were shouting “Hitlershahi ki Modi Sarkar, Lajja Lajja!” while the Chair convened the Question Hours and allowed ministers to lay papers on the table.
The Chair then addressed the protesting MPs and reminded them of a proposal passed in the House with members emphasising on the importance of decorum in the Parliament. The members responded with loud boos and jeers while trying to outshout Harivansh Narayan Singh who was in the Chair at the time.
Lok Sabha reconvenes, adjourned again within three minutes
Lok Sabha reconvened at 12.30 pm but was adjourned again by 12.33 as Opposition members swarmed the Well. The House will now reconvene at 2 pm.
EAM S Jaishankar speaks in Rajya Sabha amid sloganeering by opposition
External Affairs minister S Jaishankar responded to questions related to US Secrretary of State Antony Blinken’s India visit. While MP Revati Raman Singh asked if government was planning to do something to improve India’s image amid allegations of human rights violations, another MP sought to know why the government shied away from naming China in its joint statement.
Rajya Sabha reconvenes; members swarm well
Opposition members swarmed into the Well as soon as the House reconvened. Members clapped and raised slogans loudly against the Centre while the Chair continued to hold the Question Hour.
Lok Sabha speaker dismisses adjournment motion notices by Oppn MPs
Congress MP Ripun Bora rides bicycle to Parliament to protest rising fuel prices
Congress MP Ripun Bora rides a bicycle to the Parliament to protest against the rise in fuel prices. He said, “We have been demanding a discussion in the Parliament on the hike in prices of all essential commodities. Being an MP, if we are not allowed a discussion in the Parliament, then, where will we raise such issues.”
Opposition disrupting Parliament on non-issue: Union minister Pralhad Joshi on Pegasus row
Lok Sabha resumes, takes up Question Hour amid din
Govt reaches out to Opposition leaders to end Parliament impasse
Union ministers Piyush Goyal and Prahlad Joshi are meeting Opposition leader Mallikarjun Kharge to work on the impasse in Parliament.
Rajya Sabha adjourned at 11.09 am
Rajya Sabha adjourned till 12 noon amid protest by Opposition MPs soon after the session began for the day. The din began after Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu dismissed various point of orders and adjournment notices introduced by opposition MPs. After this, the House was adjourned till 12 pm
Lok Sabha speaker urges Opposition parties to maintain decorum
“We have all considered this place the temple of democracy and I try to maintain the dignity of my chair by being fair to all of you. But some members of the House are repeating incidents that are against Parliament rules; If this continues, I’ll have to take an action against those members in order to maintain the decorum of the House,” said Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Opposition MPs tearing papers and hurling them at the Chair and treasury benches.
Centre wasting Parliament’s time by not discussing important matters
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said today that unless the government gets down to discussing important issues such as Pegasus snooping row, the controversial farm laws and the inflation, it was wasting the Parliament’s time.
Yesterday, the Congress leader had alleged that the government has indicated that it was not going to take up the Pegasus row for discussion in the Parliament.
Opposition damaged dignity of Parliament, says BJP
The BJP on Wednesday hit out at the opposition parties for creating ruckus in the Lok Sabha and throwing papers at the Chair, saying they have ashamed the world’s largest democracy and damaged the dignity of Parliament. Amid protest by opposition members over the Pegasus spying row and farmers’ issue, the Lok Sabha was adjourned multiple times on Wednesday. The House witnessed unruly scenes when Congress and Left members threw papers and torn placards at the Chair and Treasury benches. A placard thrown by an MP fell in the press gallery.
Want discussion only on Pegasus and farm laws: Congress
While the government is looking at finding common ground with all political parties to run the Parliament, Opposition dug in its heels today as Congress insisted it was not interested in any other topic of discussion till the government agreed to address the pegasus snooping row and the three controversial farm laws.