Parliament Monsoon Session Highlights: Lok Sabha Adjourned, Proceedings To Begin At 11 AM Tomorrow
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Parliament Live Updates: Please follow this space for all the latest updates on the Monsoon session of the 18th Lok Sabha. The Bharatiya Janata Party-led Centre and the Opposition are once again going to be at loggerheads today as the discussion on Union Budget will continue on Thursday as well.
The discussion on Budget for Jammu and Kashmir, 2024-25, which was presented on Tuesday, will also continue on Thursday.
The papers will be laid on the table by Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Jitendra Singh, Arjun Ram Meghwal and Kirtivardhan Singh. Union minister and BJP MP from Balurghat, Sukanta Mujamdar is expected to make a statement on the status and implementation of recommendations and observations contained in the 250th report of the department-related parliamentary standing committee on Home Affairs on action taken by the government on the recommendations and observations contained in the 243rd report of the committee on demands for grants (2023-24) of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region.
Discussion on the Union Budget 2024-25 was taken up by both the Houses of Parliament on July 24 with Opposition dubbing it as "discriminatory" to most states and lacking a vision.
Former finance minister and Congress MP P Chidambaram initiated the discussion in Rajya Sabha while Congress MP Kumari Selja began the discussion in Lok Sabha.
Chidambaram raised four major challenges highlighting unemployment as the most significant challenge and pointed towards the data released by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) which indicates that the unemployment rate for June 2024 is 9.2 per cent .
On Wednesday, MPs from the INDIA bloc staged protest outside the Parliament alleged discrimination against opposition-ruled states in the Union Budget, with Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi saying the budget is an "assault on the sanctity of India's federal structure".
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress Parliamentary Party chief Sonia Gandhi, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, and several MPs of the Congress, TMC, Samajwadi Party, DMK and the Left attended the protest besides Rahul Gandhi.
Parliament Monsoon Session LIVE: BJP's Mandi MP Kangana Ranaut Raises Need Of HP's Cultural Preservation
BJP Mandi MP Kangana Ranaut highlighted that the culture of Himachal Pradesh was becoming extinct and spoke about its architecture, clothing, music, and stressed the need to preserve them.
#HimachalPradesh में घर बनाने की एक कला शैली kath kuni कही जाती है, भेड़ और याक के ऊन से वस्त्र बनाए जाते हैं, स्पीति और किन्नौर की विशिष्ट संगीत शैलियां हैं, इनके संरक्षण का मुद्दा उठाया सांसद @KanganaTeam ने.#LokSabha #ZeroHour pic.twitter.com/yk2xdeAc3d
— SansadTV (@sansad_tv) July 25, 2024
Parliament Session LIVE: 'Govt Has Done Injustice To States Where INDIA Alliance Is In Power,' Says Congress's KC Venugopal
Congress general secretary KC Venugopal slammed the Centre over the Union Budget and said: "After the Union budget, the INDIA alliance parties are very much agitated as the govt has done injustice to most of the states where INDIA alliance is in power. It's a clear discrimination and hence we are not going to participate (in the NITI Aayog meeting). I think that Mamata Ji will also not attend the meeting."
#WATCH | Congress general secretary KC Venugopal says, "After the Union budget, the INDIA alliance parties are very much agitated as the govt has done injustice to most of the states where INDIA alliance is in power. It's a clear discrimination and hence we are not going to… pic.twitter.com/an1ULKBaX5
— ANI (@ANI) July 25, 2024
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