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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. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju and his team of floor managers worked to ensure that appointments to the committees take place by consensus.

Congress urged Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday not to regard an interaction of farmer leaders with the media after they met Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi in the Parliament complex last week as a violation of decorum, and cited past instances of women filmstars and others interacting with reporters after the women's reservation bill was tabled in the House. In a letter to Birla, Congress general secretary, organisation, K C Venugopal said when Gandhi was speaking during a discussion on the Union Budget 2024-25 on July 29, he was told that the decorum of the institution of Parliament was violated when the farmers who had come to meet him spoke to the media.

Constitution Murder Day," a day to remember the tumultuous events of the 1975 Emergency imposed by then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu on Thursday promised to conduct an inquiry into allegations of abrupt fare hike when MPs try to book tickets on Air Vistara airline, following complaints by MPs and a nudge by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla. Raising the issue during Question Hour in Lok Sabha through a supplementary question, DMK member Dayanidhi Maran alleged that whenever he tries to book ticket on Air Vistara for the Chennai-Delhi route, initially it shows a price in the range of around Rs 25,000.

Airports Authority of India, the Urban Development Department, the government of Rajasthan, and the Civil Aviation Department, for the development of Kota Greenfield Airport in Rajasthan, according to an official press release issued by AAI. As per the MoU, the government of Rajasthan will provide land for the development of the greenfield airport and AAI will be responsible for the construction, development, and operation of the airport. As per the information, the Greenfield airport at Kota will be constructed on 440.086 hectares of land for which a Detailed Project Report (DPR) is being prepared by the Airports Authority of India.

Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla on Thursday nominated 14 members including Sudip Bandhyopadhyay, Gaurav Gogoi, Dayanidhi Maran, PP Chaudhary, and Anurag Thakur for the Parliament's business advisory committee. The committee, which is effective from July 18, will be chaired by Birla himself. The next session of the Parliament is set to commence on July 22, and the budget will be presented on July 23 by the Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman.

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla expunged portions of Rahul Gandhi's speech, questions were raised over the efficacy of this move in times of live telecast and digital media. Rule 380 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha vests the Speaker with power to order expunction of words — which in his opinion are «defamatory, or indecent or unparliamentary or undignified» — from the proceedings of the House. Birla ordering expunction of Gandhi's remarks, including on Hinduism, means that parts of the speech will not be included in official record. It also means that expunged parts will be erased from video recordings of Lok Sabha TV. This is done to make it consistent with the official printed version. So while Gandhi may have scored immediate political brownie points with his speech in Lok Sabha, the expunction will mean that official records will not reflect the deleted portions.

Parliament. The ongoing session, the first after Lok Sabha elections, was expected to be stormy. It lived up to the billing.

Lok Sabha has been adjourned till Monday amid an uproar in the House as the opposition demanded a discussion on the alleged irregularities in the conduct of the medical entrance exam NEET. As soon as the House met, opposition members were on their feet seeking the acceptance of an adjournment motion to suspend all business and discuss matters related to the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET). Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi said the NEET issue is a very important issue for the whole country and they want a dedicated discussion in the House on the matter. Hence, the adjournment motion should be accepted, he said.

NEET and UGC-NET paper leak, President Droupadi Murmu emphasised that her government is committed to an impartial probe and will ensure that those involved in the crime are given the severest sentence. In her first address to the joint sitting of Parliament after the constitution of the 18th Lok Sabha, President Murmu also brought up the 1975 national emergency, terming it an attack on the Constitution and a «dark chapter». Her remarks came a day after Speaker Om Birla moved a resolution in the House against the Emergency. The ruling coalition has raked up Emergency as a counter to the INDIA bloc attacking it on the alleged threat to the Constitution under the new regime.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi said on June 25.Now, all eyes are on the post of Deputy Speaker, which the Opposition has been vying for since the beginning. The Lok Sabha has yet to get its deputy speaker position after it became vacant in 2019.Most opposition leaders cited a "parliamentary tradition" to claim the Deputy Speaker's post.

Om Birla on his election as Lok Sabha Speaker and exhorted him to run the House fairly, without bias. Leading the Opposition benches was Rahul Gandhi, who was appointed Leader of Opposition on Tuesday, a post that remained vacant for a decade. «The idea that you can run the House efficiently by silencing the voice of the Opposition is a non-democratic idea and this election has shown that the people of India expect the Opposition to defend the Constitution, the Samvidhan of this country,» said Gandhi as he cautioned against the stifling of the voice of Opposition. «The question is not how efficiently the House is run, the question is how much of India's voice is being allowed to be heard in this House,» Gandhi said, adding that by allowing the Opposition to speak, the Speaker would be doing his duty of defending the Constitution of India. Gandhi assured the Speaker of his support in running the House. «We, the Opposition, would like to assist you in doing your work. We would like the House to function often and well,» he said.

Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi, the newly-elected MP from Srinagar, on Wednesday urged Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to ensure the sanctity of the House by restraining members from making disparaging remarks or rushing legislations like the abrogation of Article 370. In his two-minute inaugural address after Birla was elected Speaker, the National Conference member made a passionate appeal and emphasised, «I would request you that from today you are neither BJP nor Congress or Samajwadi, and you have only one party, and that is the Constitution of India.» He expressed hope that the Speaker would uphold the Constitution and lead the house as a beacon of democracy. Mehdi cryptically alluded to the Speaker's legacy, stating that his actions in handling both the government and opposition voices would define his tenure.

Amit Shah on Wednesday hailed Speaker Om Birla for moving a resolution in Lok Sabha condemning the imposition of Emergency in 1975 by former prime minister Indira Gandhi and said it has exposed the «anti-democratic» thinking of the Congress which harmed the major pillars of democracy like «judiciary, bureaucracy and media». Shah also said that Lok Sabha remembered the Emergency, which was an «Era of Injustice» and expressed its sympathy to the poor, Dalits and backward people, who had to suffer the exploitation and atrocities of the then Indira Gandhi government, when the rights of the citizens of the country were destroyed and their freedom was snatched away. The home minister said many sensitive amendments made in the Constitution during the dark period of Emergency expose the dictatorial mentality of the Congress which centralised all powers in one person. «It (resolution) has exposed the anti-democratic thinking of the Congress which has harmed the major pillars like judiciary, bureaucracy and media, has condemned the cruelty of Congress in imprisoning lakhs of opposition leaders for more than one and a half year without any reason,» Shah wrote in a post on X in Hindi with hashtag #EmergencyHorrors.

prime minister Narendra Modi said that the event ‘highlighted how the democracy was strangled’ and ‘exemplified what a dictatorship looks like.’Taking to X (previously Twitter), the PM said, “I am glad that the Honourable Speaker strongly condemned the Emergency, highlighted the excesses committed during that time and also mentioned the manner in which democracy was strangled. It was also a wonderful gesture to stand in silence in honour of all those who suffered during those days."“The Emergency was imposed 50 years ago but it is important for today's youth to know about it because it remains a fitting example of what happens when the Constitution is trampled over, public opinion is stifled and institutions are destroyed.

Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate Om Birla, who was the Speaker in the 17th Lok Sabha, is up against INDIA bloc leader and eight-term Congress Parliamentarian K Suresh for the crucial post. Follow Live Updates on Lok Sabha Speaker election today HereThe election was forced after the ruling NDA and Opposition INDIA bloc failed to arrive at a consensus for the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker post.Usually, the Speaker of the Lok Sabha is appointed with consensus between the ruling and the opposition camps.

opposition bloc, has forced a contest for the post of the Lok Sabha speaker which has been decided with consensus for decades. While the NDA has fielded former Speaker Om Birla, INDIA has picked Congress leader and senior-most Lok Sabha MP Kodikunnil Suresh. As per the Lok Sabha Secretariat, the first such contest was in 1952 between GV Mavalankar and Shankar Shantaram. Mavalankar won with 394 votes whereas Shantaram got 55. The second such fight happened in 1976 between Baliram Bhagat and Jagannath Rao. Bhagat won with 344 votes while Jagannath Rao got 58. NDA candidate Birla was unanimously elected as the Speaker of the previous 17th Lok Sabha. Birla's name was proposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and was supported by all major opposition parties, including Congress, TMC, DMK, and BJD. The YSRCP and TDP also supported Birla's candidature.

Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday urged the Congress not to force a contest for the post of Lok Sabha Speaker as the presiding officer does not belong to any party. Rijiju's remarks came after Congress leader Kodikunnil Suresh filed the nomination for the post of Lok Sabha Speaker against the NDA nominee Om Birla, forcing a rare election to the post after 48 years. «I appeal again that they should think about keeping in mind the dignity of the post of Speaker. We have the numbers but still, we are requesting that there should be no election for the post of Speaker because this post does not belong to any party,» the Parliamentary Affairs Minister said. He said the government had contacted major opposition parties over the last two days for consensus on the post of the Speaker.

INDIA bloc is unlikely to contest the Lok Sabha Speaker's post and the NDA nominee is likely to be elected unopposed, sources said Tuesday ahead of filing of nomination for the key post. However, the Opposition has demanded that they be given the choice to pick the deputy speaker. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh spoke to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge late on Monday night and sought the support of the opposition on the issue. Singh, however, gave no assurance to the opposition on its demand for the deputy speaker's post, the sources said.

BJP falling short of majority by 32 seats, an uncertainty persists over who the ruling (NDA) alliance’s candidate will be. The Opposition INDIA bloc have demanded that the position goes to NDA allies including the Janata Dal (United) and the Telugu Desam Party (TDP). This has led to a difference in opinions within the saffron party-led coalition, as per a TOI report. In the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP secured 240 seats, falling short of a majority by 32 seats. However, with 16 seats won by N Chandrababu Naidu's TDP and 12 by Nitish Kumar's JD(U), these allies became crucial in forming the government at the Centre. Their support has been instrumental in paving the way for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's third term, earning them the title of kingmakers.

Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Sunday inaugurated the newly-constructed 'Prerna Sthal' in the Parliament complex, consisting of statues of leaders and freedom fighters. Prerna Sthal was constructed to install the statues of leaders, including Mahatma Gandhi, at one place inside the Parliament House Complex. For building the Prerna Sthal, the statue of Mahatma Gandhi, which was near the new Parliament building has been shifted to another place inside the Parliament complex. That spot — where the Gandhi statue was moved — was used by the opposition MPs to protest against the government.