The House was adjourned after holding a six-hour long debate on the "Parliamentary journey of 75 years starting from Samvidha Sabha- achivements, experiences, memories and learnings".
Congress Member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor has said that they were all a bit confused as to why this special session was called as bills the government have been talking about could have been introduced later.
Congress leader KC Venugopal on the first day of the special session of Parliament said that the new Parliament building is not important but the discussion inside it is very important.
Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on the last day of Parliament proceedings in old building remembered former Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru and others and said that he was tireless in listening to the voice of the Opposition and never mocked or deflected when answering questions.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday recalled the emotional moment of his entering the Parliament as an MP for the first time in 2014, saying he bowed down to honour the temple of democracy and could have never imagined that a child belonging to a poor family would be able to enter the
Aam Aadmi Party MP Sushil Kumar Rinku said on Monday that the suspension of AAP MPs Raghav Chadha and Sanjay Singh from the Rajya Sabha should be revoked and they should be allowed to attend the session in the new Parliament building.
"This is the beginning of a new era in the new parliament building and in this era the participation of women must increase. Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik also for many years had been requesting to the Central government to table the long-pending Women Reservation Bill," said Misra.
"The centre is not clear about the agenda and is hiding something. "They (Centre) are not clear about it (agenda). They are not telling us...the agendas (of special Parliament session) that are taken up are normal subjects. They are hiding something, and we wanted to ask them what is the age
Vice President of India and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankar hoisted the national flag at the new Parliament building today, a day before the special session of the Parliament.
"Meetings of newly constituted Congress Working Committee have been scheduled for 16th and 17th September in Hyderabad and will not feasible to attend flag hoisting function at New Parliament building tomorrow," said Mallikarjun Kharge in his letter.