Parliament Session Live Updates: Meanwhile, Congress MPs Manish Tewari and Manickam Tagore gave adjournment motion notices in the Lok Sabha for discussing the 'Pegasus Project' report
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Union minister Nirmala Sitharaman to move for leave to introduce The Appropriation (No.4) Bill, 2021 in Lok Sabha to authorise payment and appropriation of certain further sums from and out of the Consolidated Fund of India for the services of the financial year 2021-2022.
The Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha witnessed protests by Opposition members, who have been demanding a discussion on the Pegasus project report in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home minister Amit Shah.
As sloganeering continued, Rajya Sabha chairman M Venkaiah Naidu adjourned the House till noon.
Parliament Session Live Updates: The Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will convene on Tuesday, after being disrupted six days in a row amid protests by the Opposition over various issues, including farm laws, Pegasus snooping and fuel price hike.
The 308th Report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on “Impact of the pandemic on MSME Sector and mitigation strategy adopted to counter it” will be laid in the Rajya Sabha. Union minister Smriti Irani is set to move that the Bill to amend the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015, as passed by Lok Sabha, be taken into consideration.
In Lok Sabha, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will move that the Bill to amend Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, be taken into consideration.
Amid disruptions, The Lok Sabha on Monday had passed the Factoring Regulation (Amendment) Bill, 2020, and the National Institutes of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management Bill, 2021 on Monday amid protests and sloganeering. The Factoring Regulation (Amendment) Bill, 2021 aims at helping MSMEs tide over problems of delayed payments as it seeks to broaden the participation of entities undertaking factoring. The National Institutes of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management Bill, 2021, to declare certain institutions of national importance.
A total of 69 zero hour mentions, including 12 admitted for Monday, and 23 special mentions by as many members could not be raised during the last week and Monday due to persistent disruptions.
Modi said the government is fully prepared to give the answers that the people of the country want and that he hoped that the Monsoon Session is productive and dedicated to meaningful discussion
The Opposition on its part wants to corner the government by raising issues like alleged shortcomings in the healthcare system during the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic and the distribution of COVID vaccines to states
Parliament Monsoon Session Live Updates: The Centre will move a motion seeking suspension of Shantanu Sen that is likely to be heard tomorrow, according to media reports