Parliament Winter Session: Day 8 HIGHLIGHTS

Both the houses were adjourned till 11 am on Friday. 
 

The Lok Sabha Passed the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Second Amendment) Bill, 2022. The Bill seeks to amend the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950, with respect to its application to Tamil Nadu.

Elections have become a "big budget affair" and holding simultaneous polls to Lok Sabha and state assemblies would result in huge saving to the exchequer, the government said. Law Minister Kiren Rijiju said the need for simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and legislative assemblies has been felt as polls have become "big-budget affair and expensive". In a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha, he said the Law Commission in its report on Reforms in Electoral Laws had suggested simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and state assemblies for the sake of stability in governance. 

BJP MP Pritam Munde on Thursday demanded that the Union government should take back its recent decision of doing away with certain scholarships for minority communities. The Maulana Azad Fellowship for minority students pursuing higher education has been scrapped while the government's pre-matric scholarship for them will no longer apply to students from Class 1 to Class 8. "I demand that the government should rethink this decision. Education is free in right to education but this (scholarships) work as an encouragement for these students in schools," she said.

BJP Lok Sabha members termed the deaths in Bihar due to the hooch tragedy as "mass murder" and urged the Centre to take immediate action against the government under Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, holding it responsible for the incident. Raising the issue during Zero Hour, BJP's Paschim Champaran MP Sanjay Jaiswal claimed that spurious liquor sale has been flourishing in Bihar under the protection of police officers despite a prohibition in place. But the chief minister does not take any action against any of them, he charged.

Bihar hooch tragedy among other issues reverberated in House. Rajya Sabha was adjourned thrice within 40 minutes.

Rajya Sabha MP Sushil Modi said in the past 6 years more than 1,000 people have died in Bihar due to spurious liquor and 6 lakhs have gone to jail. Is Bihar under police raj? The way Nitish kumar behaved in the assembly isn't graceful, he should apologise.

The serious effects of global warming and the need for remedial steps to tackle it will be discussed in the Rajya Sabha this afternoon. The issue will be raised by DMK, Congress and CPI MPs Tiruchi Siva, Pramod Tiwari and Sandosh Kumar P, respectively.

Taking to microblogging site Twitter, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge posted, “It seems that the "red eyes" of the Modi government is covered with Chinese glasses. Is speaking against China not allowed in the Indian Parliament?”

Congress MP Pramod Tiwari gave Suspension of Business Notice under Rule 267 in Rajya Sabha to discuss "misuse of CBI, ED and other govt agencies against political rivals and others."

CPI MP Sandosh Kumar P gave Zero Hour Notice in Rajya Sabha to discuss the need to reinstate concession to senior citizens in Railways.

Congress MP Manickam Tagore gave adjournment motion notice in Lok Sabha to discuss ensuring of legal guarantee for MSP for farmers as per the Swaminathan Committee.

BJP MP Biplab Kumar Deb gave Zero Hour Notice in Rajya Sabha to discuss the need to reopen the border-haat on Tripura-Bangladesh border.

Congress MP Manish Tewari gave adjournment motion notice in Lok Sabha to discuss the border situation with China.

AAP MP Raghav Chadha gaive Suspension of Business Notice under Rule 267 in Rajya Sabha to discuss "Central Government’s attempts to interfere in appointments to higher judiciary and delays/obstructions in judicial appointments."

The serious effects of global warming and the need for remedial steps to tackle it will be discussed in the Rajya Sabha this afternoon. The issue will be raised by DMK, Congress and CPI MPs Tiruchi Siva, Pramod Tiwari and P Santhosh Kumar, respectively.

Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi gave Suspension of Business Notice under Rule 267 in Rajya Sabha to discuss "the subversion of independence of institutions like ED, IT, CBI, EC, CVC and CIC."