Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla had a verbal exchange inside the House on Monday when the latter questioned him as to why he bowed down to Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he shook hands with the PM on the day he was elected as Speaker of Lok Sabha on June 26.
Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal led a group of newly elected NDA MPs from Assam to pay a courtesy visit to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla at the Parliament House on Friday.
President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday said the government is giving equal importance to manufacturing, services and agriculture and the pace of reforms will be further accelerated in tune with the aspirations of people for rapid development
The standoff between the Governor and the state's ruling party, TMC, was triggered by a Raj Bhavan communication inviting the two newly elected MLAs of Bhagwangola and Baranagar, Reyat Hossain Sarkar and Banerjee, respectively, to take oath at the Governor's House on Wednesday.
Addressing a joint sitting of both Houses, the President congratulated the newly elected members of the 18th Lok Sabha. She also expressed her gratitude to the Election Commission of India for holding the elections peacefully.
The West Bengal Governor and the state government are again at loggerheads over the oath ceremony of the two newly elected Trinamool MLAs. Biman Bandyopadhyay, the Speaker of the West Bengal Assembly, questioned the Governor behind "delaying" the oath.
Om Birla was elected as the Lok Sabha speaker for the second time in a row after the motion moved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and seconded by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh was adopted by the House through a voice vote on Wednesday.
Om Birla urged all the members of the House to have "dignified discussions of agreement and disagreement by the ruling side and the opposition after he was re-elected as the speaker of the 18th Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Kumar Sinha on Wednesday congratulated Om Birla on getting elected as the Lok Sabha Speaker and said that the ones who tried to violate fundamental rights and suppress the press should learn from today's victory.
National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate and MP from Kota, Om Birla was re-elected as the Speaker of the 18th Lok Sabha after the motion for the same was moved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and seconded by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.