
Parliament Winter Session Live Updates: Rajya Sabha proceedings were adjourned for about 50 minutes till 12 noon on Monday amid protest by some opposition members soon after Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu called for the first Zero Hour mention.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah to expected to make a statement on the Nagaland firing incident in both the Houses of the Parliament today. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is meeting with Shah and senior ministers ahead of today’s session, sources said.
In Rajya Sabha, RJD leader Manoj Jha and TMC MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy gave a suspension notice over the Nagaland killings. TRS MP Nama Nageswara Rao gave an adjournment motion notice in Lok Sabha over the MSP issue.
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya will table The Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill, 2021, and The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2020 in Rajya Sabha. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will site the status of implementing the 6th report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance on the Demands for Grants (2021-22).
In Lok Sabha, the health minister will move the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (Amendment) Bill, 2021, for consideration and passing. Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju is also scheduled to introduce the High Court and Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Amendment Bill, 2021.
The Opposition parties staged a protest in front of the Parliament building on Monday, over the suspension of 12 Opposition MPs. “Tughlak shahi band karo, Hitler shahi nahi chalegi, Modi shahi nahi chalegi” were some of the slogans in the protest.
The 12 opposition MPs -- six from the Congress, two each from the Trinamool Congress and Shiv Sena, and one each from the CPI and CPI(M) -- were suspended from the Rajya Sabha last Monday for the entire Winter Session of Parliament for their "unruly" conduct in the previous session in August. The Opposition has termed the suspension as "undemocratic and in violation of all the Rules of Procedure" of the Upper House.
Rajya Sabha proceedings were adjourned for about 50 minutes till 12 noon on Monday amid protest by some opposition members soon after Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu called for the first Zero Hour mention.
Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday said that the opposition parties are expecting Home Minister Amit Shah to give a statement and his detailed view about the Nagaland killings. ' We'll demand that the Home Minister give his statement before both Houses & give his detailed view on the incident, we're expecting it. It's a very sensitive incident. It shouldn't have happened. He should answer why did it happen,' he said.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah to expected to make a statement on the Nagaland firing incident in both the Houses of the Parliament today. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is meeting with Shah and senior ministers ahead of today’s session, sources said.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah to give a statement on the Nagaland firing incident in both the Houses of the Parliament today, ANI reported.
Six civilians, said to be workers in a coal mine, were killed in an ambush by security forces in an area between Tiru and Oting village in Nagaland’s Mon district while returning home in a vehicle Saturday evening.
The incident triggered violence in the area Saturday night and late Sunday afternoon, in which eight more civilians (seven on Saturday, and one Sunday) were killed after security forces allegedly opened fire.Shattering the relative calm in Nagaland, the killings and the subsequent violence put a question mark on peace talks. (With Tora Aggarwala)
TRS MP Nama Nageswara Rao gave an adjournment motion notice in Lok Sabha over the MSP issue.
In Rajya Sabha, RJD leader Manoj Jha and TMC MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy gave a suspension notice over the Nagaland killings.