A day after the strength of the Opposition was reduced further with the suspension of two more members from the Lok Sabha for raising a ruckus over their demand for a statement from Union Home Minister Amit Shah on the December 13 security breach, the Parliament will reconvene for the 14t
The Home Minister said that the new laws being brought in place of three old laws have been made on the basis of the three basic spirit of our Constitution - freedom of the individual, human rights and the principle of equal treatment to all.
Opposition members in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday said that the bill to regulate the appointment, conditions of service and term of office of the Chief Election Commissioner and other Election Commissioners if passed, would lower the status of the CEC and ECs.
The Central government is planning to table seven new Bills, including setting up a Central Tribal University in Telangana and providing women's quota in Jammu and Kashmir and Puducherry Assemblies, during the upcoming Winter Session of the Parliament.
The reports were submitted by Brij Lal, Rajya Sabha MP and Chairman of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs, on Friday.
"Members are informed that the next meeting of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs will be held at the 6" November 2023 in Committee Room "2", PHA-Extension, New Delhi to consider and adopt the draft Reports." read the Parliament notice.
"Three new bills are introduced, for us it's a learning process. Many provisions would be the same and there are some changes. Many provisions are deleted. Change is always better. If we want to grow further, change is required," Justice Bindal said.
In a run-up to the state assembly polls, the Congress party on Saturday vowed to pass a new Bill that guarantees to protect the land and rights of the tribal people of Mizoram.
Rashtriya Janata Dal member Manoj Jha taking part in the discussion on the women’s reservation Bill on Thursday on behalf of his party in the Rajya Sabha demanded that women belonging to Other Backward Classes be incorporated in the legislation.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that the government is bringing a new Bill to reserve one-third of all seats for women in the Lok Sabha and the state legislative assemblies and that God has given him the opportunity to take forward the task of women empowerment.
A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra declined the Centre’s request to defer examining the validity of the sedition law as the new Bill (Bharathiya Nyaya Samhita) is pending consideration before a standing committee of Parliament.
The Congress leader also demanded for a joint committee of Parliament consisting of eminent legal minds from all parties to scrutinize each of these bills.