New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) Congress leaders on Thursday rejected allegations that Opposition MPs had threatened or attempted to obstruct Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Lok Sabha, asserting that claims of a “planned” incident were false and aimed at diverting attention from disruptions in parliamentary functioning. Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra dismissed reports suggesting that Opposition members attempted to obstruct or tried to harm the Prime Minister, calling such assertions “entirely wr…
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New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Thursday said he had advised Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to attend the House amid concerns over disorder, citing information that an inappropriate incident could have taken place near the Prime Minister’s chair. Speaking in the Lok Sabha, Birla said, “With immense sadness, I want to inform the House that yesterday, the way a few MPs behaved in the Lok Sabha chamber was unprecedented. This has never happened in the history of the Lok …
New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla passed the Motion of Thanks on the President’s Address on Thursday amid constant sloganeering by the Opposition MPs. After a one-hour adjournment, the House reconvened at 12 p.m. amid Opposition protests. After the motion was passed, the Lok Sabha was again adjourned till 2 p.m.With constant sloganeering in the background, the proceedings saw a heated exchange this week as the Opposition members repeatedly clashed with the Treasury Benches over …
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) With the Lok Sabha proceedings getting stalled over fierce exchanges between the government and Opposition, the bitterness and bad blood only seem to be intensifying, with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Nishikant Dubey making it a battle of books — between unpublished and published ones. During his speech in Lok Sabha on Wednesday, the BJP MP referenced a couple of published books on former Prime Minister late Jawaharlal Nehru and Edwina Mountbatten and made damaging ac…
New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address in Parliament, slated for 5 p.m. on Wednesday, is understood to have been postponed, as the Lok Sabha was adjourned till Thursday morning, over continued uproar and vociferous sloganeering from the Opposition members. As the Lok Sabha reconvened at 5 p.m. on Wednesday to discuss the Motion of Thanks to President’s address, the House plunged into chaos with Opposition members erupting in protest, apparently enraged over denial of perm…
New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday wrote to Speaker Om Birla, reminding him of the responsibility of being an “impartial custodian of the House” while accusing the latter of preventing him from speaking in Lok Sabha at the behest of the government.In a letter addressed to Birla, Gandhi wrote, “For the first time in Parliamentary history, on the behest of the government, the Speaker has been forced to prevent the Leader of the Opposition from speaking o…
New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday took aim at the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of disrupting House proceedings by raising the Ladakh standoff issue while quoting from a magazine article linked to an “unpublished book” of former Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane.Earlier on Monday, Speaker Om Birla had issued a ruling stating that no one can quote a news article or magazine, citing Parliamentary rules, a…
New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) After chaotic Lok Sabha proceedings a day earlier, the House reconvened on Tuesday. However, it was adjourned just 9 minutes after the proceedings started.The Lok Sabha was adjourned till 12 p.m. This came amid the Opposition’s uproar over Monday’s proceedings when Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi tried to raise the 2020 Ladakh standoff issue, while citing a magazine article, which he claimed quoted the unpublished memoir of former Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravan…
New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday sought an apology from the Congress and Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi for his controversial “Chinese tanks in Doklam” remark and also for the sin of surrendering Indian territory to China in the past.Addressing reporters after an adjournment in Lok Sabha over Rahul Gandhi’s remarks, Rijiju said compromising our territory will never be allowed; in fact, the Congress must apologise for the sins…
New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) The Lok Sabha was on Monday adjourned for the second time, till 4 p.m., amid a row over Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi repeatedly seeking to raise the alleged details of the Chinese aggression along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh in 2020. The lower house of the Parliament saw a heated exchange between the Congress and the ruling BJP over former Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane’s “unpublished” book on the Doklam standoff between India and China in 20…