During a press conference on Friday, the Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs said that the previous record was made back in 1981 when the Parliament discussed the Essential Service Maintenance Act.
"We are at the end of the fourth session of the 18th Lok Sabha. This session started on January 31, 2025. In this session, we had 26 sittings, and the total number was about 118 percent," Birla said while addressing the lower house during his closing remarks.
"This is against the basic spirit of the Constitution. According to Rule 37, the time of the House in Rajya Sabha is until 6 PM, and it has not been extended. An 8-hour discussion was supposed to take place, starting at 1 PM and ending at 9 PM, but voting happened at 2:20 AM, and the House c
CM Yadav highlighted that it was the result of PM Modi's concern for all the sections of the society that the Waqf Amendment Bill 2025 passed in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.
"It is a big reform... The properties that are donated to Waqf are for the poor Muslims, widows, and children. However, the Waqf board has failed to open any university, hospital or college in the entire country, and none of the poor have benefitted from it but only a few people in positi
Reciting another couplet, Athawale said, "Itni ho gayi hai raat, Mai kar raha hu Waqf Bill par baat, Mai de raha hu Modi ji ko saath, Isiliye mai Congress ko dikha raha hu haath."
"Today is a historic day when Parliament, by approving the 'Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025', has put an end to an era of injustice and corruption that had persisted for years and ushered in an era of justice and equality," Shah posted on X.
"We will knock on the doors of the Supreme Court. We will protest peacefully under the limits of the constitution. We gave our views earlier to the JPC, but we have been ignored," Abbas told ANI.
Samajwadi Party (SP) leader and former MP ST Hasan on Friday fiercely criticised the passing of the Waqf Amendment Bill in the Parliament, branding it "unconstitutional" and warning of its potential rejection by the Supreme Court. Hasan argued that that bill has destroyed the Muslim communit
"The sad thing is that the government brought this bill in great haste and got it passed, which is not appropriate, and now that this bill has been passed, if governments misuse it, then the party will fully support the Muslim community, meaning that in such a case, the party does not agr
Congress MP Pramod Tiwari slammed the passage of the Waqf Amendment Bill in Parliament, alleging ulterior motives by the ruling party, stating that it was done for polarising and diverting attention from their failure.