The Lok Sabha proceedings were interrupted for the second day in one line on Tuesday amid an uproar over the special intensive amendment (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Bihar.
The house was postponed in the morning after sitting for two minutes in the morning. It then sat for 12 minutes and four minutes, in two meetings in the afternoon, before being postponed for the day.
As soon as the House sat, the opposition member of the Congress, Samajwadi Party (SP), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Dravid Munnetra Kazham (DMK), left and Trinamool Congress (TMC), among others, ‘Death of Sardars’, ‘Sir’, ‘Sir.’ Sir’. The members also shouted slogans of “Tanashahi Nahi (Autocratic Rules will not work).
Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan, who raised questions during the question hours, said, “It is my prayer that today’s question is about the farmers, poor, villages … Opposition should allow these questions to be revealed.”
Subsequently, the speaker Om Birla said, “Today, the questions will discuss the issues of the farmers and the problems faced by them. But you do not want to run the house.
Birla then postponed the house by noon.
Subsequently, the opposition members gathered at the Makar gate of Parliament and protested, raised slogans and caught the placards.
As soon as the proceedings resumed in the afternoon, Jagdamika Pal took the chair and allowed to be kept on the table for papers, even the opposition members continued to protest against the House’s well and continued the protest demanding discussion on the head. Pal said that the speaker had received a stay notice from some members, but no one has been allowed.
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“I am requesting KC Venugopal ji, Akhilesh Yadav ji and all the respected leaders. Yesterday, you raised an issue that there should be a discussion on Operation Sindoor. The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs said that this business advisory committee (BAC) will be accepted to take decisions. All issues are ready to discuss.
Subsequently, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Arjun Ram Meghwal said, “We are ready to discuss any issue on which you give a decision. I appeal to him that he should take his seat so that he can discuss under the rules.”
However, opposition members continued to shout slogans.
Pal said before postponing the House by 2 pm, “Instead of showing the placard, submit your proposals and resolutions, and the speaker will give time … The government will give an answer. You are forcing you to postpone the house.”
As soon as the House started the proceedings at 2 pm, Dilip Saikia also took the chair as opposition MPs continued their protest. Saikia requested MPs to take their seat and assured that all issues would be discussed.
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Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said, “It was decided in the BAC that there would be a discussion on Operation Sindoor first. The time was set. Do you want to discuss all the issues together? How is it possible? I condemn how to protest with placards on every other issue. They are ready for it. They are ready for it. Engineer by Congress and some other parties.”
Saikia said that such disruptions were against the spirit of democracy, and then postponed the House for the day.
The Rajya Sabha also repeatedly postponed as Vice President Harivansh presided over the proceedings, a day after Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, a day after the sudden resignation, also the former officer of the upper house.
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