PM Modi in Rajya Sabha Parliament proceedings LIVE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is replying on the motion of thanks on President Ram Nath Kovind’s address in Parliament. During his reply, he talked about farm laws and protests around it. He also questioned the opposition parties for taking U-turn on many of reforms that they had once propagated. He quoted former PM Manmohan Singh, who had once called for making one single market for agriculture produce.
Earlier today, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh spoke in the Rajya Sabha. He said 11 Rafale aircraft have arrived in India. “By this March, India will have 17 Rafale aircraft. By April 2022, all Rafale aircraft (the entire batch) will come to India,” he said.
The union minister further informed that the government was emphasising on indigenisation. “We have chosen 101 items that won’t be imported from other nations but manufactured in India by Indians,” Singh said in reply to a question on whether there was any probability that few estates of Defence will be privatised in time to come.
Congress MP Manickam Tagore has given adjournment motion notice in Lok Sabha to discuss the flash floods in Uttarakhand.
CPI MP Binoy Viswam has given suspension of business notice under rule 267 in Rajya Sabha over the flash floods in Chamoli, Uttrakhand.
Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi has given suspension of business notice under rule 267 in Rajya Sabha to discuss the investigation of TRP scam.
Highlights
PM Modi in Rajya Sabha LIVE: A new entity has come up in the country- 'Andolan Jivi'. They can be spotted wherever there is a protest, be it agitation by lawyers, students, or labourers, explicitly or implicitly. They cannot live without 'andolan', we have to identify them and protect nation from them.
PM Modi in Rajya Sabha LIVE: This country is proud of every Sikh. What have they not done for this country? Whatever respect we give them will always be less. I have been fortunate to spend crucial years of my life in Punjab. Language used by some for them and attempt to mislead them will never benefit nation.
PM Modi in Rajya Sabha LIVE: The nation is making progress and we are talking about FDI but I see that a new FDI has come to the fore. We have to protect the nation from this new FDI. We need Foreign Direct Investment but the new FDI is 'Foreign Destructive Ideology', we have to protect ourselves from it.
PM Modi in Rajya Sabha LIVE: We must not forget what happened with Punjab. It suffered the most during partition. It cried the most during 1984 riots. They became victims of most painful incidents. Innocents were killed in Jammu and Kashmir. Business of weapons was carried out in northeast. All this affected the nation.
PM Narendra Modi in Rajya Sabha LIVE: Sharad Pawar ji, and those from Congress, everyone... all governments have stood for agricultural reforms. Whether they were able to do it or not, but everyone has advocated that it should be done.
PM Modi in Rajya Sabha: MSP was there. MSP is there. MSP will remain in the future. Affordable ration for the poor will continue. Mandis will be modernised.
PM Modi in Rajya Sabha LIVE: Manmohan ji is here, I wouldd read out his quote. Those taking a U-Turn (farm laws) will perhaps agree with him. 'There are other rigidities because of marketing regime set up in 1930s which prevent our farmers from selling their produce where they get highest rate of return. It is our intention to remove all those handicaps which come in the way of India realising its vast potential at one large common market.'
PM Modi in Rajya Sabha LIVE: 'Since 2014, we have initiated changes in the agriculture sector aimed at empowering the farmer. The crop insurance scheme was changed to make it more farmer friendly. The PM-KISAN scheme was also brought in. We are working for the small farmers.'
PM Modi in Rajya Sabha LIVE: Our democracy is not a western institution. It's a human institution. India's history is filled with examples of democratic institutions. We find mention of 81 democracies in ancient India. Today it's essential to warn citizens about the attacks on India's nationalism. India's nationalism is neither narrow now selfish and not even aggressive. This is inspired by the values of 'Satyam Shivam Sundaram'. This quotation was given by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose."
PM Modi in Rajya Sabha LIVE: Bajwa sahab from Congress was also speaking. He was speaking in such detail that I thought he will reach Emergency (period) shortly and speak on it, he is just one step away from it. But he didn't go there. Congress disappoints this country a lot, you did that too.
PM Modi in Rajya Sabha LIVE: India is not merely the world's largest democracy. India is the 'Mother of Democracy' and this is our ethos. Our nation's temperament is democratic.
PM Modi in Rajya Sabha LIVE: I was listening to Derek ji, he had chosen good words - Freedom of Speech, Intimidation. When I was listening to him, I was wondering if he is talking about Bengal or the country. He sees all this for 24 hours, so he might have said the same here too.
PM in Rajya Sabha LIVE: India has seen days when there was a large threat of polio, smallpox. Nobody knew whether India will get a vaccine or how many people will get it. From those days, we are now here, when our nation is making vaccines for world. This increases our self-confidence.
PM Modi in Rajya Sabha LIVE: You might have seen on social media-an old woman sitting outside her hut on footpath, with a lit earthen lamp, praying for welfare of India. We are mocking her! If somebody who never went to school thinks they can serve India by lighting lamps, they can do it. It's being mocked!
Rajya Sabha LIVE: TMC MPs staged a walkout as Prime Minister Modi began his reply in Rajya Sabha to the Motion of Thanks on the President’s Address.
Parliament Proceedings LIVE: "The eyes of the world are on India. There are expectations from India and there is confidence that India will contribute to the betterment of our planet," PM Modi replies to the Motion of Thanks on the President's Address, in the Rajya Sabha.
PM Modi in Rajya Sabha Live: India is truly a land of opportunities. Several opportunities are awaiting us, so a nation which is young, full of enthusiasm and a nation that is making efforts to realise the dreams, with a resolve, will never let these opportunities simply pass by."
Parliament Proceedings Live: The eyes of the world are on India. There are expectations from India and there is confidence that India will contribute to the betterment of our planet, PM Modi in Rajya Sabha
Parliament LIVE: In Rajya Sabha, over 50 MPs expressed their views for over 13 hours, they expressed their invaluable views. So, I express my gratitude to all the MPs, says PM Narendra Modi replies to the Motion of Thanks on the President's Address in Rajya Sabha
Parliament Proceedings LIVE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi says that it would have been better if the opposition leaders had listened to Presdient Ram Nath Kovind's address in Parliament.
At least 16 opposition parties had boycotted the President's address in Parliament due to protests over Farm Acts.
Rajya Sabha LIVE: Prime Minister Modi replies in Rajya Sabha to the Motion of Thanks on the President’s Address.