Winter Session of Parliament LIVE UPDATES: Lok Sabha passes property (amendment) bill

Winter Session of Parliament LIVE UPDATES: The Rajya Sabha was adjourned till Thursday after Opposition parties continued to protest PM Narendra Modi's remarks against Manmohan Singh.

Winter Session of Parliament LIVE UPDATES: Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted with flowers at the BJP Parliamentary meeting in New Delhi on Tuesday (Express Photo/Renuka Puri)

Amid a deadlock between the government and Opposition parties over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks against former PM Manmohan Singh, Parliament resumed on Tuesday. Opposition parties are demanding that the Prime Minister come to the House and clarify his remarks. While campaigning in Gujarat, Modi had alleged Singh and former vice-president Hamid Ansari has attended a meeting at Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar’s residence along with Pakistani officials, and that former Pakistan army director Arshad Rafiq has insisted that Congress leader Ahmed Patel be made chief minister of the state.

Meanwhile, Modi was greeted with cheers at the BJP’s parliamentary party meeting today, following the party’s comfortable victories in the Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections. Unfortunately, Minister of State for Agriculture Krishna Raj, who was feeling ill, was rushed to hospital midway.

On Monday, Congress president Rahul Gandhi had described the poll outcome as a big jolt for the BJP, which was restricted to less than 100 seats in the 182-member Gujarat Assembly. He questioned Modi’s credibility, adding that no one listened to him anymore. Speaking to reporters outside Parliament, Gandhi said, “BJP ko zabardast jhatka pada hain Gujarat main (BJP has received a jolt in Gujarat).”

Gandhi added, “Frankly, Modiji has a credibility problem and he will find it very difficult — because what he is saying, his organisation and his forces are repeating, but the country is not listening.”

  1. 6:28PM
    20 Dec, 17
    PM Modi holds back tears at party meeting in Delhi

    PM Modi got emotional at BJP meeting held on Wednesday as he recalled the efforts of leaders in building the party, news agency PTI reported. He said that Congress under Indira Gandhi got to rule 18 states but the BJP and its allies are in power in 19 states now.

  2. 5:47PM
    20 Dec, 17
    V-P Naidu irked over latecomers in Rajya Sabha

    Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu expressing displeasure at the delayed arrival of ministers in the Upper House of the Parliament said, “I would like to advise the Parliamentary Affairs Minister to see that Ministers who are supposed to lay papers on the Table of the House are in the House on time.” 

    Read | Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu anguished over absence of ministers

  3. 4:15PM
    20 Dec, 17

    Discussion on The Indian Forest (Amendment) Bill, 2017, begins in the Lower House.

  4. 4:08PM
    20 Dec, 17

    Lok Sabha passes The Requisitioning and Acquisition of Immovable Property (Amendment) Bill, 2017

  5. 4:00PM
    20 Dec, 17

    "The provisions of the Requisitioning and Acquisition of Immovable Property (Amendment) Bill, 2017 will violate the rights of those whose land is being taken," said RSP (Revolutionary Socialist Party) MP MK Premchandran in Lok Sabha.

  6. 3:29PM
    20 Dec, 17
    Lok Sabha proceedings underway

    Lok Sabha proceedings are going on despite protests and sloganeering by the Congress MPs. The Requisitioning and Acquisition of Immovable Property (Amendment) Bill, 2017 is being discussed in the Lower House currently

  7. 2:15PM
    20 Dec, 17
    Rajya Sabha adjourned till Thursday

    Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu has adjourned the House till tomorrow.

  9. 1:41PM
    20 Dec, 17

    The stalemate in Parliament continues, with Opposition parties relentless in their demand that the Prime Minister issue an apology for his remarks against Manmohan Singh. Rajya Sabha has been adjourned twice — now, till 2 pm — despite Chairman Venkaiah Naidu saying an apology would not be issued in the House. 

  10. 1:09PM
    20 Dec, 17

    The AIADMK faction led by sidelined leader TTV Dinakaran has released a video, purportedly showing late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in hospital before her death. The video was released a day ahead of the bypoll to RK Nagar constituency. Addressing the issue, DMK MP TKS Elangovan says the party will complain to the Election Commission, as it violated the Model Code of Conduct. Speaking to reporters outside Parliament, he says, "She was CM, people should have known status of her health but they did not release this video (of Jayalalithaa at Apollo Hospital) at that time, now they did so for personal gains, it violates MCC, we will complain to the Election Commission," reports ANI.

  11. 12:31PM
    20 Dec, 17
    Condition of Union Minister Krisha Raj stable, says doctor

    Union Minister Krishna Raj, who was rushed to hospital earlier today, is admitted in Ram Manohar Lohia hospital. According to doctors, her blood sugar levels dipped, due to which she felt uneasy."She is conscious and her condition is stable. She is a diabetic and was having fever for the last two days. It seems that her blood sugar levels had dipped because she felt uneasy," a doctor was quoted as saying by PTI. "Her pulse and blood pressure has come out normal. Further investigations are on."

  12. 12:26PM
    20 Dec, 17
    Here's the schedule for both Houses today

    The Bills listed in the Lok Sabha today are:

    The Indian Forest (Amendment) Bill;The Requisitioning and Acquisition of Immovable Property (Amendment) Bill;The Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Amendment Bill.

    And in the Rajya Sabha:

    The Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy Bill;The State Banks (Repeal and Amendment) Bill;The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Amendment) Bill.

  13. 12:24PM
    20 Dec, 17

    The Lok Sabha was adjourned till noon as well, after Congress members raised Modi's remarks against Manmohan Singh.

  14. 12:16PM
    20 Dec, 17
    No apology will be issued, RS Chairman tells Opposition

    While Opposition members in the Rajya Sabha were protesting, Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu reportedly said an apology wouldn't be issued by anyone for the remarks against former PM Manmohan Singh. "This is not the way. Nobody is going to give apology. Nothing happened in the House. The statement was not made here," Naidu said, reported ANI. 

  15. 12:12PM
    20 Dec, 17
    Rajya Sabha adjourned till 2 pm

    Rajya Sabha has been adjourned till 2 pm after the Opposition continued to disrupt proceedings in the House.

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