Parliament Live — 'Now You Know Why 144 MPs Were Suspended': Cong On LS Nod To Criminal Code Bills
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"Today the Home Minister got the 3 draconian Criminal Justice Bills passed in the Lok Sabha without any informed dissent. Tomorrow he will get them passed in the Rajya Sabha too without any different viewpoint expressed on them by the best legal minds. Now you know why 144 INDIA MPs were thrown out of both Houses," Congress leader Jairam Ramesh tweeted.
Lok Sabha Secretariat issues circular for MPs Thomas Chazhikadan and AM Ariff who were suspended from the House today, barring them from entering the Parliament chamber, lobby and galleries, ANI reported. The circular reads that they are not entitled to a daily allowance for the period of suspension, if suspended from the House for the remainder of session.
Rajya Sabha passed the Provisional Collection of Taxes Bill, 2023 to provide for the immediate effect for a limited period of provisions in Bills relating to the imposition or increase of duties of customs or excise. The Bill was passed by the Lok Sabha on December 19.
Both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha have been adjourned for the day.
Lok Sabha has passed The Telecommunications Bill, 2023
I.N.D.I.A bloc Floor Leaders to have a meeting on Thursday at the office of Rajya Sabha LoP. The alliance's MPs will march to Vijay Chowk from Parliament on the issue of suspension of Opposition MPs, ANI reported.
The Lok Sabha passed three revised criminal Bills seeking to replace IPC, CrPC and Indian Evidence Act.
"Now the accused will get seven days to file a plea for acquittal...The judge has to hold the hearing in those seven days and in a maximum time of 120 days, the case would come to trial. There was no time limit for plea bargaining earlier. Now if one accepts their crime within 30 days of the crime then the punishment would be less...There was no provision to present documents during trials. We have made it compulsory to produce all documents within 30 days. No delays will be made in that," Amit Shah said in Lok Sabha.
"This is just to divert the attention from the issues of unemployment and Parliament security breach. I am surprised that everyone's conscience has awakened on the issue of 'mock Parliament', but the abuses given on the floor of Lok Sabha could not awake anyone's conscience," MP Danish Ali told PTI.
"If 50-60 MPs snatch away rights of 543 in Lok Sabha they deserve to be suspended," PTI quoted BJP MP Manoj Tiwari as saying.
"We said that in Ayodhya we will make Ram Mandir as soon as possible and on January 22 Lord Ram's idol will be installed there. This is PM Modi's government which delivers what they say. We said that we would give 33% reservation to women in the Parliament and assemblies. Congress came to power many times and kept giving dates but we delivered it and with a majority of votes to empower women," Amit Shah said in Lok Sabha.
"In CrPC there were 484 sections, now there will be 531 sections in it. Changes have been made in 177 sections and 9 new sections have been added. 39 new sub-sections have been added. 44 new provisions have been added," Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Lok Sabha
Lok Sabha suspends opposition MPs Thomas Chazhikadan and A M Ariff for the remainder of Winter Session for misconduct
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman moves the Central Goods and Services Tax (Second Amendment) Bill, 2023 in the Rajya Sabha for consideration and return further to amend the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017.
Supreme Court advocate Vineet Jindal files complaint with Ethics Committees of Rajya Sabha & Lok Sabha against TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee for mimicking Rajya Sabha Chairman and Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar. He seeks the expulsion of Kalyan Banerjee, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and other MPs involved in it.
"...I don't care about how much you insult Jagdeep Dhankhar. But I can't tolerate (insult of) Vice President of India, farmers community, my community... I will not tolerate that I could not protect the dignity of my post, it is my duty to protect the dignity of this House..," Rajya Sabha Chairman on mimicry row.
Parliament Winter Session Live: AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi says three new criminal law bills are "dangerous" for the people of the country. He challenged the Centre to bring back Kulbhushan Jadhav, Nikhil Gupta from Pak and Czech Republic respectively using the law.
Jat community stages protest in support of Vice President & Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar.
Palam 360 Khap Pradhan, Chaudhary Surender Solanki, says, “This meeting has been called so that either TMC MP (Kalyan Banerjee) apologises to Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar and also to millions of farmers across India, or we will call a bigger meeting today itself and protest against TMC…It is unfortunate we talk about Congress, especially Rahul Gandhi, as their outlook towards the whole situation was very unprofessional and ridiculous…Our only demand is that we will not tolerate the insult of a farmer family.”
If I am not allowed to speak, should I say it is because I am Dalit, Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge on mimicry of VP Jagdeep Dhankhar.
‘The Bharatiya Nyaya (Second) Sanhita, 2023’, ‘The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha (Second) Sanhita, 2023’ and ‘The Bharatiya Sakshya (Second) Bill, 2023’ taken up for further consideration and passing in Lok Sabha.
NDA MPs in Rajya Sabha stand and take part in House proceeding to express their respects to Chairman and Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar after TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee mimics him.
Parliament Session Live: Rajya Sabha proceedings begin as the opposition continues shouting over the suspension of MPs. Union Minister Pralhad Joshi attacks the opposition over mimicking Chairman and Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar.
Parliament Session Live: Proceedings of both Houses have bee adjourned amid row over the suspension of 141 MPs from Lok Sabha and rajya Sabha.
On mimicry row, TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee says, "I have never had any intention to hurt anyone...Does he really behave like this in Rajya Sabha? Mimicry was done by the PM in Lok Sabha between 2014-2019..."
On suspension of 141 opposition MPs, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor says, "This is a disgrace and a blot on our democracy..."
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge says, "We will continue our protest until the suspension of MPs is revoked..."
Floor leaders of INDIA parties to meet today afternoon at Congress President Maillikarjun Kharge's residence in Delhi
TMC MP Saket Gokhla's shocking claim. He posts on X:
"I HATE to disclose a private informal conversation but this is what happened yesterday & it’s devious 👇
I asked @PiyushGoyal why the small bunch of us remaining INDIA MPs weren’t being suspended in the Rajya Sabha despite protesting in the well. Because 46 of our INDIA colleagues got instantly suspended for the same thing a day earlier. He says “Because if there’s zero Opposition MPs left, it looks bad for us.”
But then he added - “Don’t worry, you’ll all be suspended before @AmitShah ji comes to Rajya Sabha to table the criminal law Bills”. This is what our Parliament has now become reduced to under Modi’s"
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla met Vice President and Chairman, Rajya Sabha Jagdeep Dhankar and conveyed his deep concerns and anguish about serious misdemeanor by MPs in Parliament complex demeaning and denigrating the constitutional office of Vice President: Lok Sabha Speaker's office
Opposition MPs protest against the Central government in front of the Gandhi statue in Parliament premises
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee to meet PM Modi in Parliament today. She has reached Parliament and will meet the PM soon.
CPP chairperson Sonia Gandhi speaks in the Congress Parliamentary Party meeting at Central Hall of Sanvidhan Sadan, Parliament House "Democracy has been strangulated by this government. Never before have so many Opposition Members of Parliament been suspended from the house, and that too, simply for raising a perfectly reasonable and legitimate demand."
Odisha and West Bengal Congress leaders to meet party president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi at AICC in Delhi today.
General body meeting of Congress Parliamentary Party to be held today in Central Hall of Sanvidhan Sadan, Parliament House.
Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan is to move a motion in the Rajya Sabha today for election to the court of the University of Delhi so that the House proceed to elect, in such a manner as directed by the Chairman, one member from amongst the members of the House to be a member of the Court of the University of Delhi.
Winter Session Of Parliament: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is to move the Central Goods and Services Tax (Second Amendment) Bill, 2023 in the Rajya Sabha today for consideration and return further to amend the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017. The Bill was earlier passed by the Lok Sabha.
Sitharaman will also move the Provisional Collection of Taxes Bill, 2023 in the Rajya Sabha today for consideration and return to provide for the immediate effect for a limited period of provisions in Bills relating to the imposition or increase of duties of customs or excise. The Bill was earlier passed by the Lok Sabha.
Lok Sabha Secretariat has issued a circular for the suspended MPs barring them from entering the Parliament chamber, lobby and galleries.
Parliament Winter Session: Various reports of the Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committees on Industries; Defence; External Affairs; as well as Labour Textiles and Skill Development are to be laid on the table of Rajya Sabha today.
Lok Sabha proceedings extended till 9 PM due to discussion on the three bills to replace criminal laws.
Rajya Sabha adjourned till tomorrow.
The National Capital Territory of Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Second (Amendment) Bill, 2023 passed by Rajya Sabha.
On suspension of more than 100 Opposition MPs for the remainder of the winter session of Parliament, BJP MP Hema Malini says, "They keep raising questions and display strange behaviour. So, they have been suspended. If they have been suspended, it means they have done something wrong. Work should be done in accordance with Parliament rules. They don't do it and they have been suspended. There is nothing wrong in it, this is correct."
Lok Sabha passed the Central GST (Second Amendment) Bill, 2023, to raise the age limit of presidents, and members of appellate tribunals, PTI reported.
Rajya Sabha adjourned till 4 pm amid opposition uproar on Parliament security breach issue
Congress:
Shashi Tharoor , Manish Tewari , Karti Chidambaram ,V. Vaithilingam, Gurjeet Singh Aujla, Saptagiri Ulaka, Adoor Prakash ,Pradyut Bordoloi ,Geeta Koda, Francisco Sardinha, Jyotsna Mahant, A Chellakumar, Ravneet Bittu, K. Sudhakaran, Muhammad Sadiq , M. K. Vishnu Prasad, Jasbir Singh Gill, Pratibha Singh
National Conference:
Farooq Abdullah, Hasnain Masoodi
Samajwadi Party:
Dimple Yadav, ST Hasan
NCP:
Supriya Sule, PP Mohammed Faizal, Amol Kolhe
IUML:
Abdul Samadani
JDU:
Giridhari Yadav , Rajiv Ranjan Singh, Santosh Kumar, Dulal Chandra Goswami, Dinesh Yadav, Mahabali Singh, Sunil Kumar
, Chandeshwar Prasad, ,Alok Kumar Suman, Dileshwar Kamait
DMK:
S. Jagathrakshakan , SR Parthiban , A Ganeshamurthi, P Velusamy ,DNV Senthil Kumar, Dhanush M Kumar
TMC:
Mala Roy ,Sudip Bandyopadhyay ,Khalil Ur Rahaman , Sajda Ahmed
AAP:
Sushil Kumar Rinku,
Danish Ali (suspended from BSP)
Thol. Thirumavalavan of VCK
"The Government has created a new category of Ex-Agniveer in the recruitment to the post of Constable (General Duty)/ Rifleman in Central Armed Police Forces and Assam Rifles (CAPFs & AR) with some exceptions", MoS Home Nityanand Rai said in a written reply in Lok Sabha.
In a written reply in Lok Sabha, MoS Home Nityanand Rai says that there is no increasing trend of suicides by CRPF personnel during the last three years. From year 2020 to 2023, 206 CRPF personnel committed suicide.
MoS Home Nityanand Rai tells Lok Sabha: "In the last two years, no incident of fratricide has taken place in CRPF. The no. of incidents in CRPF from 2018 to 2023 is 14 and no. of deaths during the same period is 17."
Lok Sabha has been adjourned till 2 pm after witnessing a stormy session since the beginning of the proceedings.
Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar took exception to the episode of TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee mimicking him earlier in the day while the suspended MPs staged a protest outside the Parliament building.
As the House reconvened at 12 noon after being adjourned, Dhankhar took note of the incident and said, "Office of Chairman, Rajya Sabha and Office of Speaker is very different. Political parties will have their cross currents, they will have exchanges, but imagine a senior leader of your party, video graphing another member of another party. Mimicry of the Chairman, mimicry of Speaker. How ridiculous, how shameful, how unacceptable."
At BJP Parliamentary Board Meeting, PM Narendra Modi said, "In the coming days, no matter whether others are participating or not, we must participate in the parliament," quoting sources as saying.
"Some of the Bills which are to be taken up are of great importance. We should listen to discussion on them. It would have been good if the opposition would have participated in debates on them. But perhaps good deeds are not in their fortune," PM Modi said further.
The proceedings of the Lok Sabha have been adjourned till 12:30 pm as opposition MPs protests over Parliament security breach, demand for revocation of suspension of lawmakers.
"Do they want an Opposition-less Parliament? Is this what they are working towards," says Congress MP Karti Chidambaram on suspension of 92 Opposition MPs.
BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad says, "...PM Modi said that today is the last Tuesday meeting of 2023 for the Parliament. Around 2.5 blocks in the Hall are filled with BJP MPs, by 2024 the entire block will be filled with BJP MPs...The objective of INDIA alliance is to oust PM Modi's government from power but our objective is to brighten the future of the country..."
The Lok Sabha was adjourned till noon soon after the proceedings began for the day as MPs started shouting slogans and displayed placards. Speaker Om Birla warned the Opposition MPs on the display of placards.
Floor leaders of the opposition parties meet at Rajya Sabha LoP Mallikarjun Kharge's chamber in Parliament.
Floor leaders from opposition parties including NCP's Sharad Pawar and Congress' Mallikarjun Kharge staged a protest in front of Gandhi Statue on Parliament premises, after the suspension of 92 MPs for the remainder of the ongoing winter session.
"We are protesting, we will see what the Chairman decides. We have only been demanding the Home minister to give a statement inside the House. I don't know why he is not ready for it," Kharge said.
On the suspension of 78 opposition MPs from Parliament, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha MP Mahua Maji says: "The opposition was only demanding that the Union Home minister or the PM should speak in the House about it (Lok Sabha security breach). They should have at least informed the members about the probe which is being conducted. It appears that the government doesn't want the opposition to be in the House."
The BJP Parliamentary party meeting has begun in the Parliament Library Building with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Party President J P Nadda in attendance.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives for the parliamentary meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Delhi.
Lok Sabha MP Manish Tewari has given a notice of Adjournment Motion to discuss the December 13 Parliament security breach incident.
The opposition parties are likely to boycott the winter session of the Parliament after a total of 78 MPs were suspended from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. The decision on boycott will be taken today in a meeting at the office of Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge.
Background
Parliament Winter Session Live: Hello and welcome to the Parliament Winter Session Live blog, please follow this space for all the latest news and updates on the Winter Session of the Parliament. Both the Houses of the Parliament on Monday witnessed a stormy session after a total of 78 MPs from the opposition parties were suspended from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha for unruly behaviour and disregarding the directions of the Chair.
As the proceedings started for the day, the lawmakers from opposition parties created a ruckus demanding a discussion on the Parliament security breach incident.
After adjourning the House, the MPs were suspended in the afternoon which included 45 MPs from the opposition's I.N.D.I.A bloc that has a strength of 95 MPs. Following the suspension, the I.N.D.I.A bloc lost almost half of its strength in Rajya Sabha and one-third in Lok Sabha. Out of 133 MPs in Lok Sabha, 46 oppposition MPs stand suspended.
Among the floor leaders suspended in Rajya Sabha include Trinamool Congress' Derek O'Brien and deputy leader Sukhendu Sekhar Ray; Rashtriya Janata Dal floor leader Manoj Kumar Jha; Samajwadi Party's leader in the house Ram Gopal Yadav; Janata Dal (United) floor leader Ram Nath Thakur; Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader Mahua Maji; Kerala Congress (M) floor leader Jose K Mani and Communist Party of India leader in house Binoy Viswam.
Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition and Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and deputy leader Gaurav Gogoi have been suspended and so are their chief whip K Suresh and whip Manickam Tagore.
Several other floor leaders who were suspended from the lower house included T R Baalu of the DMK, P R Natarajan of CPI-M, E T Mohammed Basheer of the IUML, N K Premachandran of the RSP; Kalyan Banerjee of the TMC.
Other senior leaders dismissed from the House include Rajamohan Unnithan, Su. Thirunavukkarasar, K Muraleedharan, Anto Antony and Amar Singh (all from Congress) and Aparupa Poddar, Prasun Banerjee, Sougata Ray, Satabdi Ray, Protima Mondal, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Asit Kumar Mal, and Sunil Kumar Mondal (all from TMC).
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