Parliament Top Points: Lok Sabha Debates No-Trust Motion, Rajya Sabha Passes 3 Bills

INDIA bloc lodged a privilege motion in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday against House Leader Piyush Goyal for referring to some Opposition members as "traitors."

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The debate on the no-trust motion began on Tuesday amid considerable turmoil, as the BJP "mocked" Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for declining to start the debate. The no-trust discussion was started by Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi, who asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi three critical questions. Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi stated: "PM took a ‘maun vrat' to not speak in the Parliament. So, we had to bring the No Confidence Motion to break his silence. We have three questions for him - 1) Why did he not visit Manipur to date? 2) Why did it take almost 80 days to finally speak on Manipur and when he did speak it was just for 30 seconds? 3) Why has the CM not sacked the Manipur CM so far?”

Top Points

• Union Home Minister Amit Shah will address the house on no-confidence motion tomorrow.
   
• Leaders of the Opposition alliance INDIA lodged a privilege resolution in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday against House Leader Piyush Goyal for referring to some Opposition members as "traitors." The Congress party's General Secretary in charge of Communications, turned to X (formerly known as Twitter), saying, "Nothing less than an apology from him on the floor of the House, when there is order, will do."
• Furthermore, the INDIA group walked out of Rajya Sabha for the remainder of the day, claiming the Narendra Modi-led Central government's "continued refusal to allow an immediate discussion on Manipur violence issue, on the basis of a mutually negotiated Motion," according to Ramesh. “The continued refusal of the Leader of the House Piyush Goyal to apologise for highly objectionable remarks he made against leaders of INDIA parties,” was another reason behind the walkout.
• During the debate on the no-confidence motion against the government, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju stated: "When our government was formed, in the first cabinet meeting, (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi ji made a group and said that every 15 days, five cabinet ministers and seven ministers of state must tour the Northeast. It is still going on, all the ministers sitting here have toured the northeast."
• The Congress party slammed Union Minister of Earth Sciences Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday for claiming in the Lok Sabha that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has directed ministers to visit the Northeast every 15 days, and challenged him to provide details of Union ministers' visits to Manipur in the last 97 days. 

  During the No Confidence Motion in Lok Sabha, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju has boasted about the Prime Minister’s directions to Cabinet Ministers and Ministers of State to visit Northeast every 15 days.
  
  Yes, we all know about the frequency of visits of Union Ministers before any…

  — Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) August 8, 2023
• Speaking on the Opposition's no-confidence motion requesting Prime Minister Narendra Modi's response on the Manipur violence problem, independent candidate Navneet Ravi Rana questioned the Congress party's silence on what happened to the girl in Rajasthan.
• "The incident (Manipur video) has been condemned across the world and has left us ashamed," said Samajwadi Party MP Dimple Yadav on Tuesday, addressing the Lok Sabha on a no-confidence resolution brought by the Opposition parties, seeking Prime Minister Narendra Modi's response on the Manipur violence problem. "It was state-sponsored ethnic cleansing," she further stated. 
• BJD MP Pinaki Misra, addressing the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, said: "...I have always believed that the Congress party is adept at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. They are also very adept at cutting their nose to spite their face. They know that every time the PM has got up to speak on the Floor of this House, he has pushed the Congress party through the shredder...This defies common sense, logic, political sense. People of this country will decide if the PM has chosen not to speak whether that was right or wrong. You have to take the case to the people."
• Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi's service to the country and Hindutva philosopher V. D. Savarkar, while voicing his opposition to the INDIA bloc's no-confidence resolution against the PM. "Savarkar, in whose thoughts and ideas even Balasaheb had faith," he continued.
• Speaking for the Opposition bloc INDIA, NCP MP from Baramati, Supriya Sule said: "Before they came to power, they used to say they are a 'party with a difference'. How are you a party with a difference?
   
• Rajya Sabha passed the National Dental Commission Bill, 2023 and National Nursing and Midwifery Commission Bill, 2023 by voice vote. Both the bills were earlier passed by the Lok Sabha.
• Rajya Sabha passed the Indian Institutes of Management (Amendment) Bill, 2023 to amend the Indian Institutes of Management Act, 2017. Earlier, the Bill was passed by the Lok Sabha on August 4.