Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday attended the swearing-in ceremony of Bangladesh's new Prime Minister Tarique Rahman in Dhaka and conveyed a personal invitation from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit India at the earliest convenience.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Friday said that the government has decided to drop its proposed Motion against Congress MP Rahul Gandhi over bringing an unpublished memoir of former Army Chief Naravane and his remarks during his budget speech in the Parliament.
This comes after Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, earlier today, criticised the media for allegedly blindly following BJP directives, calling it a "disservice to the country."
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has decided on moral grounds that he will not attend the proceedings of the House till the disposal of the no-confidence motion notice against him, according to sources.
Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi said, "At 1:14 pm today, we submitted a motion for a no-confidence motion against the Speaker under rule 94C rules and procedures." A total of 118 MPs have signed the notice of no-confidence motion against the Lok Sabha Speaker, according to Congress sources.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) women MPs on Tuesday backed Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, while slamming the Opposition MPs for the alleged "unfortunate incident" of throwing papers at the Chair and entering the Well of the House during the discussion on the Motion of Thanks on the President's
Rajya Sabha took up debate on Union Budget on Monday as the stalemate continued in the Lok Sabha over Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi's intention to speak about a reference in former Army Chief NN Naravane's "unpublished book" and the opposition members and the treasury benches trading
Congress MP Ranjeet Ranjan on Monday said the proposed no-confidence motion against Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla is about safeguarding the tradition of Parliament, voicing strong concern over what she described as "insults to women MPs and former Prime Ministers."
The sources said that the opposition's claims that there was no imminent threat to the Prime Minister "are baseless and stand contradicted by the events that transpired on the floor of the House" last week.