Budget Session 2022: Rajya Sabha Functions Disruption Free After 41 Sittings

Rajya Sabha had a disruption-free business on Wednesday. The last such normal disruption-free sitting was on March 19, 2021.

Parliament building (File photo: AFP)

New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday had a normal disruption-free sitting after nearly a year of 41 sittings spread over four sessions.

The last such normal disruption-free sitting was on March 19, 2021, during last year's Budget session, the 253rd session of RS, according to the sources. On Dec 13, 2021, the seating was additionally interruption-free but it was a Private Members' Day when disturbances are rare.

The last disruption-free full session was the 216th session in June 2014 when ministers of govt were introduced in Rajya Sabha, according to the news agency ANI quoting sources. 

Rajya Sabha today had a normal disruption-free sitting. The last such normal disruption-free sitting was on March 19, 2021, during last year's Budget session, the 253rd session of RS: Sources

— ANI (@ANI) February 2, 2022

Earlier in the day, Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu urged the members to ensure a productive Budget session, after the winter session where 52.10% of the functional time was lost due to disruptions.

While highlighting the importance of the session, Naidu said that the members should resolve in this historic year to return to the people the favour they have doing by relentlessly nurturing democracy over the last 70 years.

"The only way of doing so is to conduct themselves (the 5,000) in a manner befitting the trust the citizens still have in our parliamentary democracy,"  Naidu said soon after the listed papers were listed.

He depicted the interruptions in the House during the last two meetings as exceptionally disturbing.

"I refer to the same with a fervent hope that we all reflect on the same and conduct in a manner befitting the historic time that we are passing through," he said.