Parliament Monsoon Session LIVE: Proceedings Of Both Houses Begin, Key Bills To Be Tabled Today
Parliament Monsoon Session LIVE: Proceedings Of Both Houses Begin, Key Bills To Be Tabled Today
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Parliament Monsoon Session LIVE: Please follow the space and keep refreshing the page for all the latest updates pertaining to the ongoing Monsoon session of Parliament.
ABP News BureauLast Updated: 05 Aug 2024 02:52 PM
Parliament LIVE: Faizabad MP Speaks On Proposed Amendments To Waqf Act
"Let me read and examine the contents of the bill and understand who will benefit from bringing this bill today and then I will say anything on this," says Samajwadi party MP Awadhesh Prasad on talks of centre introducing a bill in Parliament to curb powers of Waqf Board.
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Parliament LIVE: LS Passes Demands For Grants For Ministry Of Health And Family Welfare
Lok Sabha passed the Demands for Grants under the control of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for 2024-25.
Parliament Updates LIVE: JP Nadda Speaks On Heath Infra In LS — WATCH
"Kalyan Banerjee is so educated that he does not know what the scheme of PMSSY is," said Health Minister JP Nadda in Lok Sabha. He was replying to Banerjee, who called the BJP leader a 'liar' and slammed him as the former spokes on health infrastructure.
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Parliament News LIVE: Bhupender Yadav Answers Question On Death of Peacocks In LS — WATCH
Union Minister Bhupender Yadav replied to the questions asked by member Hema Malini during Question Hour in Lok Sabha regarding the death of peacocks.
Breaking LIVE: Proceedings Of Both Houses Begin
The proceedings of both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha began.
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Monsoon Session LIVE: Mayawati Opposes Apex Court's SCs Sub-classification Verdict, Says Parliament Should Overturn It
BSP chief Mayawati on Sunday opposed the recent Supreme Court verdict allowing sub-classification within Scheduled Castes, and said Parliament should overturn the ruling. The sub-classification of people within Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) has been permitted, our party doesn't agree with it at all, Mayawati said while addressing a press conference here.
In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court on Thursday held that states are constitutionally empowered to make sub-classifications within the Scheduled Castes, which form a socially heterogeneous class, for granting reservation for the uplift of castes that are socially and educationally more backward.
Mayawati also alleged the decision will take away reservation from the SCs and STs, which will then be given to the general category.
Parliament LIVE: Hardeep Puri To Introduce Bill To Amend Oilfields (Regulation and Development) Act In Rajya Sabha Today
Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri is set to introduce the Oilfields (Regulation and Development) Amendment Bill, 2024 in Rajya Sabha on Monday to amend the Oilfields (Regulation and Development) Act,1948.
Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Suresh Gopi will lay on the table the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on Information Systems Audit of selected Central Public Sector Enterprises - Union Government (Commercial) - Ministry of Petroleum and Natual Gas no. 2 of 2024 (Compliance Audit Observations).
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Parliament LIVE: Congress's KC Venugopal Likely To Get Major Role In Public Accounts Committee. Details
Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha MP KC Venugopal may soon have to shoulder another responsibility as he is likely to head the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament. A total of 22 MPs – 15 from Lok Sabha and seven from Rajya Sabha – have been elected unopposed to PAC. Of the 15 Lok Sabha MPs, seven are from BJP, three from Congress and one each from Trinamool Congress, DMK, Samajwadi Party, Jana Sena and TDP.
The position of the chairman of the multi-party panel is traditionally given to the main Opposition party. As per Congress sources, Venugopal will be named the chairperson of the panel this time. READ MORE
Centre All Set To Overhaul Waqf Act, To Bring Bill To Curb Boards' Powers On Assets
In a major step to curb the powers of Waqf Boards, the Narendra Modi-led Central government is likely to introduce a bill in the Parliament later this week to amend the Waqf Act. Sources said the Cabinet on Friday evening discussed 40-odd amendments in the Waqf Act, including ones to check the jurisdiction of Waqf Boards which now control assets running into lakhs of crores of rupees across the country.
"As per the proposed amendments, claims on properties made by Waqf Boards, which were previously unrestricted, will be mandatorily verified. Mandatory verification has also been proposed for disputed properties of Waqf Boards," they said. READ MORE
Monsoon Session LIVE:RJD Will Fight For Reservation From Streets To Parliament, Says Tejashwi Yadav
The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in Bihar has vowed to take the fight for reservations from the streets to the Parliament.RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav has been vocal on the issue for the past two days, claiming that the BJP-led Union government was “misleading” the Parliament over the inclusion of hiked quota for deprived castes in Bihar in the 9th Schedule of the Constitution so that it gets immunity from legal scrutiny.
In an X post on Saturday, Tejashwi Yadav pointed out RJD's "long-standing efforts to advocate for a caste census aimed at the welfare of the deprived and neglected sections of society.“
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Parliament Monsoon Session LIVE: Stormy Day Likely Ahead
Proceedings of both Houses -- Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha--are expected to be stormy, with protests and verbal clashes between the Treasury and Opposition benches over several issues including potential amendments in the Waqf Act, limiting the boards' powers.
Breaking LIVE: All We Need About Proposed Amendments In Waqf Act
Sources have suggested the government may propose amendments to the Waqf Act, potentially limiting the Waqf Board's authority to designate properties. These changes would reportedly include mandatory verification for property claims.
To be sure, there was no confirmation from the government over this and no updates have been made to the legislative agenda since before the session began. Reports on Sunday cited unnamed government officials as saying the move was in line with demands from the Muslim community.
In 2013, the Congress government expanded the powers of the Waqf Boards through amendments to the Waqf Act, 1995, which regulates assets designated for religious or charitable purposes under Muslim law. The new amendments are designed to increase women's representation on the Central Waqf Council and state boards, introduce measures for monitoring properties with district magistrates, and address delays in property surveying.
Breaking LIVE: All We Need About Proposed Amendments In Waqf Act
Sources have suggested the government may propose amendments to the Waqf Act, potentially limiting the Waqf Board's authority to designate properties. These changes would reportedly include mandatory verification for property claims.
To be sure, there was no confirmation from the government over this and no updates have been made to the legislative agenda since before the session began. Reports on Sunday cited unnamed government officials as saying the move was in line with demands from the Muslim community.
In 2013, the Congress government expanded the powers of the Waqf Boards through amendments to the Waqf Act, 1995, which regulates assets designated for religious or charitable purposes under Muslim law. The new amendments are designed to increase women's representation on the Central Waqf Council and state boards, introduce measures for monitoring properties with district magistrates, and address delays in property surveying.
Breaking News LIVE: List Of Bills To Be Tabled In Both Houses
In the Lok Sabha, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is set to introduce the Appropriation Bill and Finance Bill, while Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal will also present legislation on readjusting representation of Scheduled Tribes in Goa’s assembly constituencies. In Rajya Sabha, Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri will see the introduction of the Oilfields (Regulation and Development) Amendment Bill on Tuesday.
Sources have also suggested that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government would also propose amendments to the Waqf Act, potentially limiting the Waqf Board’s authority to designate properties. However, so far, there has been no confirmation from the government over this.
Breaking LIVE: Key Parliamentary Panels Constituted Without Elections
Key parliamentary panels, including the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), have started taking shape, mostly by consensus as against elections witnessed during the previous Lok Sabha. Besides the PAC, which examines government expenditure, the Committee on Public Undertakings, the Committee on Estimates, the Committee on Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, the Joint Committee on Office of Profit and the Committee on Welfare of Other Backward Classes have been constituted without an election. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla is expected to nominate the chairpersons of the panels soon, parliamentary officials said.
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Parliament Monsoon Session LIVE Updates: Hello and welcome to ABP News Live Blog. Please follow the space and keep refreshing the page for all the latest updates pertaining to the ongoing Monsoon session of Parliament. Proceedings of both Houses -- Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha--are expected to be stormy, with protests and verbal clashes between the Treasury and Opposition benches over several issues including potential amendments in the Waqf Act, limiting the boards' powers.
In the Lok Sabha, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is set to introduce the Appropriation Bill and Finance Bill, while Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal will also present legislation on readjusting representation of Scheduled Tribes in Goa’s assembly constituencies. In Rajya Sabha, Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri will see the introduction of the Oilfields (Regulation and Development) Amendment Bill.
In the Upper Sabha, opposition members also plan to discuss the functioning of several ministries, including Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, New and Renewable Energy, and Cooperation.
Sources have also suggested that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government would also propose amendments to the Waqf Act, potentially limiting the Waqf Board’s authority to designate properties. The move was reportedly in line with demands from the Muslim community. “There have been demands from within the community to amend the law to bring transparency and accountability ...some Muslim high court judges had flagged that the decision taken by Waqf boards cannot be challenged in courts. Now, the amendment bill seeks to set that right,” a report by news agency PTI quoted a person familiar with the government’s decision as saying. However, so far, there has been no confirmation from the government over this.
Key Parliamentary Panels Constituted Without Elections
Key parliamentary panels, including the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), have started taking shape, mostly by consensus as against elections witnessed during the previous Lok Sabha. Besides the PAC, which examines government expenditure, the Committee on Public Undertakings, the Committee on Estimates, the Committee on Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, the Joint Committee on Office of Profit and the Committee on Welfare of Other Backward Classes have been constituted without an election. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla is expected to nominate the chairpersons of the panels soon, parliamentary officials said.
Stay tuned for all the latest updates pertaining to the ongoing Monsoon session of Parliament.