Naidu delighted at disruption-free Parl proceeding
Expressing delight at the disruption-free proceedings on the first full working day of the Rajya Sabha in the ongoing Budget Session of Parliament, chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday said MPs should let that spirit prevail for the rest of the session and in future as well. The no-disruption proceedings came after 41 sittings spread across four sessions and after about a year. The last such normal sitting was on March 19, 2021, during the Budget session.
“It was delightful to watch quality debate on the Motion of Thanks to the President’s Address. The debate yesterday were marked by effective assertions of the achievements of the ruling party on one side and the contestation by the opposition members on the other side. This is an advantage of smooth functioning of the House. I hope this spirit will continue to prevail for the remaining part of the session and also for the future,” said Mr Naidu in the House.
The observations came in the backdrop of disruption-free proceedings in the Rajya Sabha during the debate on the Motion of
Thanks on the President’s address. The sitting on December 13, 2021 was also disruption-free but it was a Private Members’ day when the House is normally not disrupted
The last disruption-free full session of Rajya Sabha was the 216th session in June 2009 when ministers of the UPA-II government were introduced in the House.
The House then took up Special Mentions where several MPs raised issues, including demand for development of the Kanwar lake in Manjhaul in Bihar by BJP’s Rakesh Sinha, which he said is important not just for its environmental impact but for the cultural heritage also because of the Lord Buddha stupa. His party MP Vikas Mahtme demanded that tax collected from “sin goods” like alcohol and tobacco should be used for rehabilitation and deaddiction centres.