Lok Sabha Session Highlights: Rahul Gandhi Will 'Raise Voice Of People', Kharge On LoP Announcement
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Congress chief Kharge expressed confidence that Rahul Gandhi will raise the voice of the people in his role as Lok Sabha LoP. "In the 18th Lok Sabha, the House of the People shall truly reflect the aspirations of the last person standing, with Shri Rahul Gandhi becoming their voice. As Congress President, I am confident that a leader who has traversed the length and breadth of the country from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, and from Manipur to Maharashtra shall raise the voice of the people — especially the marginalised and the poor," he stated on X.
"The Congress party is strongly committed to protect Democracy and the Constitution, by upholding its eternal principles of Justice, Liberty, Equality and Fraternity," he added.
INDIA bloc leaders hold a meeting at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's residence in New Delhi.
Congress MPs Rahul Gandhi and KC Venugopal arrive at the residence of party President Mallikarjun Kharge, in Delhi to attend the meeting of the Floor leaders of the INDIA bloc.
BJP issues a three-line whip to all its Lok Sabha members to be present in the House tomorrow, 26th June. (ANI)
NCP-SCP Chief Sharad Pawar says, "I have not discussed it with anyone, it is always the practice that the ruling party gets the Speaker's post. The Deputy Speaker's post used to go to the opposition party but for the last 10 years after getting more seats in the Modi government, they have not accepted to give the Deputy Speaker's post to the opposition. We had a discussion with INDIA Alliance in which I suggested that you people sitting in the government should make the Speaker's post an unopposed election, we agree that the Speaker's post should be unopposed. This all could be decided today, I will come to know once I go there (Delhi)...". (ANI)
Congress issues a three-line whip to its party MPs in Lok Sabha to remain present in the House tomorrow, 26th June
Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) MP Chandra Shekhar Aazad tells ANI, "Today I took oath as MP inside the Parliament... even today our people have not got respect, basic facilities. Where are the jobs? Where is employment? The government will have to answer. We have come here to protect the self-respect and rights of our people and we will show it by doing it. We will raise our voice here, our people will become aware. We will force people in power not to be arrogant."
Congress leaders meeting underway at AICC headquarters, in Delhi
Former cricketer and TMC MP Yusuf Pathan takes oath as a member of the 18th Lok Sabha.
BJP MPs Ravi Kishan and Hema Malini take oath as a member of the 18th Lok Sabha.
Samajwadi Party Chief and MP Akhilesh Yadav takes oath as a member of the 18th Lok Sabha.
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi takes oath as a member of the 18th Lok Sabha holding a copy of the Constitution.
Congress leader Karti Chidambaram says, "The convention was that the longest serving member would be the Pro-tem Speaker...The government refused to give that honour to senior member Kodikunnil Suresh...The convention also says that the position of Deputy Speaker will be given to the opposition bloc. But they ran a Parliament last time in the 17th Lok Sabha without a Deputy Speaker..." (ANI)
Samajwadi Party (SP) MP Dimple Yadav takes oath as a member of the 18th Lok Sabha.
Fissures in INDIA bloc over Lok Sabha Speaker election. TMC General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee says the Congress did not discuss about Speaker candidate and took a unilateral decision. (Reporter: Jainendra Kumar)
AIMIM president and MP Asaduddin Owaisi takes oath as a member of the 18th Lok Sabha; concludes his oath with the words, "Jai Bhim, Jai Meem, Jai Telangana, Jai Palestine"
AIMIM president and MP Asaduddin Owaisi takes oath as a member of the 18th Lok Sabha.
Former Tripura CM and BJP MP Biplab Kumar Deb takes oath as a member of the 18th Lok Sabha.
Congress Parliamentary party chairperson Sonia Gandhi and party's general secretary & party's candidate for the byelection to Wayanad LS seat, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra arrive at the Parliament.
Rahul Gandhi will take oath as a member of the 18th Lok Sabha today. (ANI)
Odisha BJP MPs at the Parliament complex after taking oath as members of the 18th Lok Sabha.
Congress MP KC Venugopal said, "We are still waiting, if they are ready to give the Deputy Speaker post, we are ready to elect the NDA's candidate unanimously.Yesterday PM Modi told about consensus for the smooth functioning of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. We are ready to support the Speaker suggested by the Govt's side provided they should also honour the Opposition. We have witnessed for the last few years that the Speakers will be from the Govt's side and the Deputy Speaker from the Opposition. When UPA was in power, we gave the Deputy Speaker to the NDA for 10 years. The convention is so in the Lok Sabha that the Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha is given to the Opposition. Rajnath Singh called Mallikarjun Kharge yesterday. Mallikarjun Kharge said we are happy to support your candidate but we want the post of Deputy Speaker to which Rajnath Singh told him that we will consult PM Modi and revert."
Delhi: Floor leaders of INDIA bloc parties to meet at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's residence tonight at 8 pm.
Union Minister Piyush Goyal meets Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann and AAP Punjab MPs at the Parliament complex, Delhi.
The Opposition's INDIA bloc will announce its candidate for the post of Deputy Speaker as well after it announced K Suresh as the Speaker candidate.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju says "We had a conversation with all the floor leaders of the Opposition regarding the post of the Speaker. The Speaker is not for a party, it is for the functioning of the House. The Speaker is elected unanimously. It is disheartening that Congress has nominated its candidate for the Speaker. No election has ever taken place for the post of the Speaker. Congress put this condition that if they get the post of Deputy Speaker they will support our candidate for the Speaker's post. This give and take of posts of the Speaker and Deputy Speaker is not right..."
Former Punjab CM and Congress MP Charanjit Singh Channi takes oath as a member of the 18th Lok Sabha.
BJP MP Sambit Patra takes oath as a member of the 18th Lok Sabha.
NDA leaders signed a motion paper in favour of Om Birla for the Speaker of the 18th Lok Sabha.
On I.N.D.I.A bloc fielding K Suresh for Lok Sabha post, Samajwadi Party MP Dimple Yadav says, "It is a good thing that the Opposition has chosen its Speaker. This time the Opposition is strong."
On his nomination for the post of Lok Sabha Speaker, Congress MP K Suresh says, "I have filed my nomination. It is the party's decision, not mine. There is a convention in Lok Sabha that the Speaker will be from the ruling party and the Deputy Speaker will be from the opposition... Deputy Speaker is our right. But they are not ready to give it to us. Till 11:50 am we were waiting for a response from the government, but they did not give any response. That is why we filed the nomination."
The election for the Lok Sabha Speaker is set to take place on Wednesday. It will be for the first time that an election will be held for the post of speaker in the Lower House. NDA nominated Om Birla and the opposition I.N.D.I.A bloc has nominated K Suresh for the post.
After the ruling NDA bloc announced Om Birla as its candidate for the post of speaker in the Lok Sabha, the Opposition I.N.D.I.A bloc on Tuesday nominated K Suresh for the post. This comes after the NDA and I.N.D.I.A bloc failed to reach a consensus on Speaker and Deputy Speaker posts. Suresh has filed his nomination.
Delhi: SP Chief and MP Akhilesh Yadav says, "Everything will be out soon... The demand of the Opposition was that the Deputy Speaker (of the Lok Sabha) should be of the Opposition... Our party's opinion is also the same..."
Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah reaches Parliament. The nominations for Lok Sabha Speaker and Deputy Speaker will take place today.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has nominated Om Birla as its nominee for the post of Speaker for the 18th Lok Sabha. The move comes a day after the saffron party held deliberations with its allies for the key position. He will file his nomination papers at 11:30 AM.
Delhi: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi says "Today it is written in the newspaper that PM Modi has said that the Opposition should cooperate with the Govt constructively. Rajnath Singh called Mallikarjun Kharge and he asked him to extend support to the Speaker. The entire Opposition said that we would support the Speaker but the convention is that the Deputy Speaker post should be given to the opposition. Rajnath Singh said that he would call back Mallikarjun Kharge but he has not done that yet...PM Modi is asking for cooperation from Opposition but our leader is getting insulted..."
The Lok Sabha witnessed a display of linguistic diversity on Monday, with the newly-elected MPs taking their oaths in English and Indian languages, including Sanskrit, Hindi, Dogri, Bengali, Assamese, Gujarati and Odia.
After a stormy day 1 of the first session of the 18th Lok Sabha, the proceedings in the Lower House will continue today. On the second day, the ruling NDA bloc is set to announce the name of the nominee for the post of speaker.
The suspense over the name of the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha is likely to end today. The Congress wants Rahul Gandhi to be the LoP in the Lower House.
The Lok Sabha session is set to reconvene at 11 AM today. The swearing-in of newly elected MPs in the Lower House will continue today.
A meeting of I.N.D.I.A bloc leaders is set to take place today. In the meeting, the opposition will chalk out a strategy for the election of Speaker and Deputy Speaker. The meeting is likely to take place at 10 AM.
Prime Minister Modi utilised the customary event to take a swipe at the Congress over the Emergency, calling it a "black spot" on democracy when the Constitution was "discarded".
As the opening session saw a total of 262 newly-elected MPs, including the prime minister, taking oath, the opposition staged a protest march inside Parliament complex, with MPs of the INDIA bloc raising slogans on "saving democracy" and displaying copies of the Constitution. The remaining new MPs will take oath on Tuesday, while the election for the post of Speaker is scheduled for Wednesday.
After a stormy session on the first day of the first session of the 18th Lok Sabha, the proceedings in the Lower House are set to reconvene at 11 AM today.
The first day of the 18th Lok Sabha began on a stormy note on Monday amid a war of words between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge over the imposition of Emergency in 1975 and strident appeals to protect democracy.
Background
Lok Sabha Session Highlights: Hello and welcome to the ABP News Live Blog. Stay tuned for all the latest updates pertaining to the proceedings of the inaugural session of the 18th Lok Sabha.
The first session of the 18th Lok Sabha started on June 24, which witnessed Prime Minister Narendra Modi take oath as the Member of Parliament for the third time in a row. The 18th Lok Sabha session was held on Monday after the Lok Sabha polls concluded on June 4.
After PM Modi, the Council of Ministers were administered oath by pro tem Speaker Bhartruhari Mahtab, who was appointed by President Droupadi Murmu. Thereafter, the newly elected MPs were sworn in as members of the Lower House in the alphabetical order of the names of the state, starting from Assam.
Union Ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, and Nitin Gadkari also took oath at the session.
Among the Council of Ministers, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar are members of the Rajya Sabha. Ministers of state George Kurian and Ravneet Singh are not members of either of the two House.
Before the session commenced, the MPs of the opposition's INDIA bloc gathered in the Parliament complex and marched to the Lok Sabha together, showing strength and raising slogans to save Constitution with its copies in their hands.
This move by the opposition MPs was critcised by the NDA leaders who said that they should now consider how to take the country on the path of progress and ending political matters since the elections are over.
Congress also objected to Mahtab's appointment as the pro-tem Speaker, contending that the claim of Congress leader Suresh, a Dalit leader and eight-term member was overlooked.
As a mark of protest, the I.N.D.I.A bloc said that the opposition leaders Suresh, Baalu and Bandopadhyay would not join the panel of chairpersons, who are appointed to assist the pro-tem Speaker in administering oath to members.
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