Parliament HIGHLIGHTS: Rajya Sabha Adjourned Sine Die A Day Before Schedule
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"These new bills amplify the Modi government's zero-tolerance policy toward crime and terrorism. For the first time in history, our laws define terrorism, organized crimes, and economic offences, blocking every loophole to evade the law," Home Minister Amit Shah tweeted.
"Various exercises are underway for inter-pillar integration...82 percent of work of integration of various databases has been completed before passage of new criminal law bills. 18 percent will be completed within a year," Amit Shah told Rajya Sabha.
Speaking on the criminal code Bills, Home Minister Amit Shah said, "After its complete implementation, from filing of the FIR to the judgement, the entire process will be online. The motive of the three Bills is not to punish but to give justice."
Rajya Sabha sessions has been extended till the completion of the listed work.
"12 historic bills have been passed. People will not need to run around for justice anymore. They will find solutions at one place. The era of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita has begun and Bhartiya Dand Sanhita has ended," says BJP MP Manoj Tiwari told PTI.
After the Lok Sabha session was adjourned, PM Narendra Modi met Speaker Om Birla and floor leaders of the Opposition in the Speaker's office. BJD's Bharatari Mehtab and 2 BSP MPs were present from the Opposition. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi and Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs were also present.
The Lok Sabha was adjourned Sine Die a day before schedule.
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Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) asks CISF to conduct a survey for regular deployment of CISF in the Security Wing and Fire Wing at Parliament premises and its buildings.
Three more Congress MPs including DK Suresh, Nakul Nath and Deepak Baij were suspended from the Lok Sabha on Thursday.
DMK MP Tiruchi Siva says: Since 13th December, Opposition parties have been demanding the statement of the Union Home Minister on the security breach incident. But the concerned minister made statements outside the House while Opposition MPs were suspended for demanding the same. Never in history, our voice has been strangulated like this."
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JMM Rajya Sabha MP Mahua Maji says, "Firstly, the mimicry act was unfortunate, I condemn it. But, if the security of Parliament is breached, questions will be raised. The opposition leaders wanted an explanation from the Home Minister, and instead, they were suspended. Now, important Bills are being passed without debates."
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On three criminal law bills replacing the existing laws being passed in the Lok Sabha, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray faction) MP Sanjay Raut says, “The way bills are being passed (in the Parliament) in the absence of an opposition, anyway they (government) deem fit is not how democracy works. But we know for a fact that there is no democracy in our country…”
Rajasthan CM Bhajanlal Sharma arrives in Parliament.
BSP chief Mayawati says, "Our party believes that the suspension of around 150 MPs in the current Parliament session is not a good work or milestone for the Opposition or the Government. For the Parliamentary history, this incident is very unfortunate and a blow to people's trust. Meanwhile, the video of the mimicry of the Vice President by the suspended MPs on Parliament premises is also inappropriate and indecent. It is essential to protect the democracy and country's Parliamentary traditions from being put to shame through such incidents of differences between the Government and Opposition. Passing of essential Bills in an Opposition-free Parliament is also not a good precedent..."
Opposition MPs have taken out a protest march from Parliament to Vijay Chowk against mass suspension of the leaders from both Houses and the mimicry row.
On suspension of MPs, Congress MP Mnickam Tagore says: "We were demanding Union Home Minister Amit Shah's statement on the failure of the security breach in Parliament and action against BJP MP Pratap Simha. Now, 150 MPs of the Opposition parties have been suspended. Yesterday, two were suspended. The Parliament is becoming just a noticeboard for the ruling establishment.
"We will continue to oppose this kind of autocratic action by the government. Amit Shah and Modi will be exposed to the people of India. Today all the suspended MPs will demand justice and we will march from Gandhi Statue to Vijay Chowk in a peaceful manner. We will continue to show our protest against these undemocratic actions," he added.
The Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service, and Term of Office) Bill, 2023 that seeks to regulate the appointment of CEC in the country will be tabled in Lok Sabha today.
Union home minister Amit Shah will move the three criminal justice bills — Bharatiya Nyaya (Second) Sanhita, 2023, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha (Second) Sanhita, 2023 and the Bharatiya Sakshya (Second) Bill, 2023 in the Rajya Sabha today. The bills were passed by Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
Union minister Ashwini Vaishnav will move the Telecommunications Bill, 2023 in the Rajya Sabha today after the bill recieved nod from Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
Background
Parliament Winter Session HIGHLIGHTS: 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. On Wednesday, the Lok Sabha passed the three bills that seek to overhaul the criminal justice system in the country.
The three bills — the Bharatiya Nyaya (Second) Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha (Second) Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya (Second) Bill were introduced by Union minister Amit Shah in the Lower House saying that full implementation of the three bills will make the Indian judicial system the most modern justice system in the world.
These bills which aim at replacing the colonial-era Indian Penal Code, 1860; the Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 1898; and the Indian Evidence Act of 1872, respectively were passed with a voice vote in the House.
"We have made the legislations victim-centred while fixing the accountability of the police," said the Union home minister while replying to a debate on the bills in the Lok Sabha.
The three bills received the nod amid a reduced strength of MPs from the opposition faction after two more lawmkaers were suspended on Wednesday taking the total number of suspensions in the Lower House to 97. With the fresh suspensions, the number of members suspended from the Lok Sabha as well as the Rajya Sabha since December 14 went up to 143.
Terming the three criminal justice bills as "draconian", the Congress alleged that such a vast number of MPs were "thrown out" of both the Houses so that Shah could get them passed in Lok Sabha without any informed dissent.
"Today the Home Minister got the 3 draconian Criminal Justice Bills passed in the Lok Sabha without any informed dissent," said Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh in a post on X.
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," he said.
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