Parliament session highlights: Congress’s Rajani Patil suspended from Budget session for recording proceeding

Both Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha has been adjourned till 11am on Monday.

The Union balances very delicately the development objectives as much as keeping fiscal prudence: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Rajya Sabha (ANI)

I think it was done in a very humiliating manner. Shouldn’t have happened. If they feel something wrong was done, they should’ve sent it to Committee. Don’t know if they sent it. She wasn’t given a chance to clarify: SP MP Jaya Bachchan on suspension of Cong MP Rajani Patil from RS told ANI. 

The entire matter will be probed by the Privileges Committee and till we have the benefit of the recommendation of the Privileges Committee for consideration of this august House, Dr Rajani Ashokrao Patil is suspended for the current session: RS Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar, reported ANI. 

“Rajani Ashokrao Patil engaged in this unwholesome activity and what has been seen is a matter that must engage our attention,” said Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar.

Congress’ Rajani Patil suspended from Rajya Sabha, subject to committee report, from Budget session for recording proceedings.

Since the matter concerned the proceedings of the House, we had primary material. I’d not name the senior members with whom I interacted this morning. But I invited them to my chamber & sought guidance that if such a situation happens what should be the way out: RS Chairman (ANI)

Even though it is showing Opposition Members in poor light, I think any such action done by any Member is something of very serious concern. MPs have already complained to you about this incident. They had requested you to have the matter investigated and examined: Piyush Goyal

We don’t make policies keeping one person in mind unlike an opposition leader claimed. We make policies keeping everyone in mind. We are not the party that supports ‘jeejas and bhatijas’. It is the culture of Congress: Nirmala Sitharaman, Union Finance Minister (ANI)

“Since the pandemic when the economy dipped by minus 23, our efforts to recover the economy have been through the capex route (capital expenditure route) from the government’s side. This is because it has a great multiplier effect,” said finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, as per ANI. 

Total resources being transferred to states, that is, Central share from taxes and releases under centrally sponsored schemes put together is estimated to be at 17.98 Lakh Crores. This is higher by 1.55 Lakh crores compared to last year: Nirmala Sitharaman, Union Finance Minister (ANI)

In simple words, budget 2023-24, astutely balances the requirement for India’s development imperatives within the limit of fiscal prudence. That is a very difficult balance, it is a very delicately balanced tact: Nirmala Sitharaman, Union Finance Minister quoted by ANI. 

FM Sitharaman while replying to Budget 2023 debate in Lok Sabha took a dig at Rajasthan’s Ashok Gehlot government for reading old Budget earlier today.

FM Sitharaman while replying to Budget 2023 debate in Lok Sabha on Friday, highlighted Budget 2023 schemes meant for vulnerable tribal groups.

“If I can put in a few words the essence of budget 2023-24- it balances the requirement for India’s development imperatives within the limits of fiscal prudence,” said FM Sitharaman in Lok Sabha on Friday.

The finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said Friday that “India still fastest growing major economy”. The minister was was replying to Budget 2023 debate in Lok Sabha

While discussing the Union Budget of 2023 in Lok Sabha on Friday, Congress’ Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury alleged PM Modi’s ‘Sabka Sath Sabka Vikas’ agenda does not include empowering minorities while slamming the budget.

Rajya Sabha proceedings have been resumed again. The House was adjourned till 2:30 pm.

Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Som Parkash said Friday in Rajya Sabha that a total of 1,333 MNCs were shut down in the country, out of which 313 were foreign-based and 1,017 were their subsidiaries. “I am happy to share that in comparison to it (the one closed down), 4,906 new MNCs have been opened,” he said.

Amid ruckus, Rajya Sabha has been adjourned till 2:30 pm.

I feel like this is a new Parliament…the media is not allowed inside; the opposition can’t speak. I have a feeling that even the Parliament will stop functioning: Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Lok Sabha MP, Congress

After Rajya Sabha chairman objects to some remarks made by Congress president and Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress and other opposition parties walk out of the House

Amid ruckus in the House, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar says transgressions from both sides will not go without his ‘deep reflection.’

The Opposition MPs conitnue to raise slogans demanding a joint parliamentary probe (JPC) into the Adani crisis as the House proceedings unfolded in Rajya Sabha on Friday.

Rajya Sabha proceedings on Friday unfolded amid sloganeering  by the Opposition MPs over their demand for a JPC (joint parliamentary committee) probe into the Adani crsis.

Rajya Sabha MP Pramod Tiwari and other Congress leaders raked up the issue of chairman Dhankar expunging portions from Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge’s speech in the House a day earlier.

Rajya Sabha proceedings have begun for the day. 

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member of Parliament (MP) Tejasvi Surya has been identified as the passenger who accidentally opened the emergency door of a flight in Chennai on December 10 last year as per a reply by the Civil Aviation Ministry in Lok Sabha.

hhThere is an atmosphere of trust, positivity and hope in India and its global standing is rising, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday, highlighting sectors showing robust growth and well-performing social schemes that, he said, have helped transform the lives of millions of people. Read more.

Congress’ Ravneet Singh and Bahujan Samaj party’s Ramshiromani Verma will present a report by the Committee on Absence of Members from the Sittings of the House.

A recent Parliament speech of RJD MP Manoj Jha is going viral in which he tells a story of a king, the king’s many parrots one of which suddenly becomes sick.

The blessings of India’s 1.4 billion people who experienced basic services for the first time under this government is an armour that baseless allegations by the Opposition cannot pierce, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday in Parliament. Read more.

Expressing concern that around 30 per cent of the sanctioned strength of doctors and related staff positions are vacant, a parliament panel flagged the matter on Thursday. “It is really worrisome that out of the sanctioned strength of 1,997 doctors, 490 posts are lying vacant,” the Committee on Estimates in its report ‘Assessment of Various Initiatives under CGHS’ said in LS.

After Mahua Moitra’s Louis Vuitton bag which was the eye of a storm in Parliament last year, now Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s Louis Vuitton scarf which he wore on Wednesday is on the radar. Read more.

Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Thursday wrote a letter to Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla over matter related to “incorrected debates” published by the Secretary General that removed a “major portion” of Rahul Gandhi’s parliamentary speech. Read more.

Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra said in her understanding she did not use an abusive word in Parliament and the meaning of the word is a sinner. Read more.