Parliament
monsoon session live updates: The Opposition has identified six issues to
target the government with — lynchings, the standoff with China, farmer
suicides, terror attack on Amarnath yatris, use of CBI and ED to “target”
Opposition leaders and the effects of GST and demonetisation.
The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday will discuss the recent
lynchings and attacks on Dalits, a day after BSP chief Mayawati resigned
in protest against deputy chairman P J Kurien for asking her to cut short her
speech on atrocities against Dalits. However, her three-page resignation letter
will not be accepted as she did not follow House procedure. With her term
coming to an end next April, the BSP chief is unlikely to get reelected to the
Rajya Sabha as her party doesn’t have the required numbers to back her
nomination.
Meanwhile,
the Lok Sabha will discuss the agrarian crisis, which is the first among the
six issues to be raised in the Lower House. The Opposition has identified six
issues to target the government with — lynchings, the standoff with China,
farmer suicides, terror attack on Amarnath yatris, use of CBI and ED to
“target” Opposition leaders and the effects of GST and demonetisation.
Parliament
monsoon session live updates:
11.00
am: Parliament in session.
Question Hour underway.
Samajwadi Party MP Naresh Agarwal says “our salaries
lower than secretaries”.
Our
salary is lower than our subordinates. It feels as if we are begging for money.
Include us in the 7th pay commission. I will sit inside the Well of the House
if the government doesn’t respond: Naresh Agarwal.
10.50
am: Minister for
Parliamentary Affairs Ananth Kumar hoped that both the Houses will transact
business today and are ready for a positive debate. On the BJP Parliamentary
party meeting, Kumar said that Finance Minister Arun Jaitleydiscussed about the smooth launch of the GST.
10.45
am: Congress MPs protest in
front of Gandhi statue at Parliament complex, demanding special package for
flood-affected Northeastern states.
10.30
am: CPI(M) general
secretary Sitaram Yechury moves adjournment motion in Rajya Sabha to discuss
‘communal polarisation in the name of cow protection’.
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