Both Houses of Parliament are reassembling on Monday for the second leg of Budget session. The session will be on till April 3.
While the government plans to introduce some key Bills on reproductive rights, the Opposition wants to take up anti-CAA protests and Delhi violence. The priority, however, is to get the Finance Bill, 2020, passed.
Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, has moved an adjournment notice on Delhi riots.
The first leg of the Budget Session was held from January 31 to February 11.
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Naidu unhappy with absentees
As many as 95 MPs did not attend even a single meeting of the parliamentary standing committees that reviewed allocations for different ministries post-presentation of the Union Budget for the 2020-21 fiscal, Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu said on Monday.
Giving an account of the meetings of these panels on the opening day of the Rajya Sabha after the recess, Mr. Naidu said, “95 members, accounting for 39% of the total 244, did not attend any meeting on the Demands for Grants. Only 28 members had zero attendance last time.”
Of the 78 Rajya Sabha MPs on these committees, 23, or 29 per cent, did not attend any meeting as against 11 such members in the last review in December. Out of 166 Lok Sabha MPs, 78, or 47 per cent, were absent in all meetings of these panels against 72 MPs in the last review, he said.
“The total number of members who skipped two or more successive meetings has increased from 100 last year to 106 now. These include 28 members from Rajya Sabha as in the case of last review and 78 members from Lok Sabha, with an increase of six from the last time,” he said.
Mr. Naidu said the exercise was to bring in more accountability and transparency in the system so that Parliamentary functioning can improve.
“I would like to reiterate my appeal to leaders of all parties, floor leaders and members to ensure better attendance in the meetings of Parliamentary Committees so that they do justice to the mandate with which they have been conceived. This warrants qualitative and quantitative improvement,” he said. – PTI
Lok Sabha | 4 p.m.
House reconvenes and is immediately adjourned for 30 minutes.
Congress MP Ramya Haridas on Monday lodged a complaint with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla that she was assaulted by a BJP woman MP inside the Lower House and sought immediate action over the matter.
BJP and Congress members pushed and shoved each other in Lok Sabha as opposition members vehemently protested over the issue of violence in Delhi and demanded the resignation of Home Minister Amit Shah.
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