Lok Sabha session HIGHLIGHTS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the media as he arrives for the first session of 17th Lok Sabha, at Parliament. (Express Photo by NEERAJ PRIYADARSHI)
Parliament LIVE UPDATES: BJP leader Om Birla is likely to be the NDA candidate for the post of Speaker of Lok Sabha for which 10 parties have extended their support, ANI reported. The election on the post is to be held on Wednesday. Meanwhile, on Tuesday, 222 newly elected Members of Parliament (MPs) will take the Oath of House on the second day of the 17th Lok Sabha. On Monday, 313 MPs were administered the oath by pro-tem Speaker Virendra Kumar, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Council of Ministers.
The first session of the 17th Lok Sabha commenced Monday with jubilant BJP members raising ‘Ja Shri Ram’ and ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ slogans as members were sworn in. After skipping the morning session, Congress president Rahul Gandhi finally took oath as a member of the 17th Lok Sabha in the afternoon. Meanwhile, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi is chairing a meeting of the party’s Parliamentary Strategy Group at her residence in New Delhi.
Ahead of the session, Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted the role of the opposition in a democracy and said it need not bother about numbers while urging them to speak actively and participate in the House proceedings.
Lok Sabha adjourned for the day.
Many newly-elected members o Tuesday raised slogans after concluding their oath in Lo Sabha, with some even engaging in raillery and heate exchanges, ignoring the Chair's direction to desist from it The presiding officer directed that no slogans will go o record While many BJP MPs ended their oath with chants o 'Bharat mata ki jai' and Jai Shri Ram, Samajwadi Party MP from Sambhal Shafiqur Rahman Barq objected to Vande Mataram slogan drawing protests from members of treasury benches who demanded an apology from him. (PTI)
Slogans of 'Mandir vahin banayenge' were raised in the Lok Sabha as BJP's winning candidate from Unnao, Sakshi Maharaj took oath as a Member of Parliament.
Trinamool Congress MP from Birbhum Satabdi Roy constituency takes oath as member of 17th Lok Sabha.
Slogans of Bharat Mata Ki Jai and Vande Mataram were raised in the Lok Sabha as AIMIM MP from Hyderabad Asaduddin Owaisi came to take his oath.
BJP MP from Mathura took oath as a member of Parliament. She has been re-elected from the constituency from where she fought and won the 2014 Lok Sabha elections too.
MPs from Uttar Pradesh including Keshri Devi Patel (Phulpur, BJP), Ramapati Ram Tripathi (Deoria, BJP), Sangita Azad (Lalganj, BSP), Shyam Yadav Singh (Jaunpur, BSP), Anurag Sharma (Jhansi, BJP), Pushpendra Singh Chandel (Hamirpur, BJP) take oath as members of Parliament.
Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav takes oath as a member of Parliament. He won from Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh in the recently-concluded Lok Sabha elections. BSP had tied up with Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party to fight the Parliamentary polls this time.
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Bhojpuri star Ravi Kishan takes oath as a new member of Parliament. He won as a BJP candidate from Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur constituency.
Slogans of Vande Mataram raised in Lok Sabha after Samajwadi Party's MP Shafiqur Rahman Barq says, "Jahan tak Vande Mataram ka taaluq hai, it is against Islam we cannot follow it"
BJP's Maneka Gandhi takes oath as the member of Parliament.
Congress Sonia Gandhi takes oath as the member of 17th Lok Sabha. She won from her bastion Rae Bareli in the recently-concluded Lok Sabha elections.
Feroze Varun Gandhi takes oath as the member of 17th Lok Sabha. He won as a BJP candidate from Pilibhit.
West Bengal CM and TMC Chief Mamata Banerjee has written a letter to Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi and informed him that she will be unable to attend the meeting of Presidents of all political parties, called by the Prime Minister, scheduled for Wednesday.
"It is good that they remember such things when they see me, I hope they will also remember the constitution and deaths of children in Muzaffarpur," says Owaisi.
The Prime Minister along with his Cabinet took the oath of House. The Oath of Lok Sabha members is different from that of Oath of Office. it does not include the Oath of Secrecy administered to the PM and his Cabinet.
Former Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan called on Prime Minister Modi to thank him at the end of her tenure. "Thank you for giving time for a courtesy call at the end of the term of Lok Sabha Speaker. It is always pleasant to meet strong leadership. Thank you for giving me the responsibility of the Speaker of the Lo. My best wishes to you and the new government!"
The proceedings of the Lok Sabha has been adjourned till 2 pm.
SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav took the oath of House in Lok Sabha. Due to his poor health conditions, he could not come to the dais and took the oath from his seat in the House.
AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi took oath as a member of the House amid slogans of Vande Mataram. He won from Hyderabad constituency in Telangana.
PM Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah, Transport Minister were the proposers of Birla's name for the Speaker's post. BJD, Shiv Sena, National People's Party, Mizo National Front, Akali Dal, Lok Janshakti Party, YSRCP, JDU, AIADMK, & Apna Dal have signed the proposal.
Dressed in jeans, white shirt and a blazer, Deol took oath in English amid cheers from the treasury benches. There was a slip of tongue by the BJP MP from Gurdaspur when he said "withhold the sovereignty and integrity of the country" instead of "uphold the sovereignty and integrity of the country", but he quickly rectified it.
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Congress MP Shashi Tharoor takes the oath of the House of Lok Sabha. He is an MP from Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala.
BJP MP from Kota takes the oath of House in Lok Sabha. He is likely to file his nomination for the post of Speaker of House later in the day. 10 parties including National People's Party, Mizo National Front, Lok Janshakti Party, YSRCP, JDU, AIADMK, APNA DAL, & BJD to also support Om Birla's candidature for the post of Lok Sabha Speaker.
Biju Janata Dal, AIADMK, YSR Congress have extended their support to Om Birla for his candidature to the post of Speaker of Lok Sabha. He is likely to file his nomination at 12 pm today.
It was a long day for two mothers in the Lok Sabha galleries, waiting to see their sons take oath as Members of the House. Reena Paswan, wife of Minister for Consumer Affairs Ram Vilas Paswan, had taken a seat in the Speaker’s gallery from the outset to watch son Chirag, a second-term MP, being sworn in. Prem Lata, MLA-wife of former Union minister Birender Singh, was also in the VIP gallery. Their son, Brijendra Singh, a former IAS officer, has been elected on a BJP ticket from Hisar, Haryana. Read Delhi Confidential Here
BJP MP from Jaipur Rural, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore took the oath of House. He was a minister in the previous government, however, he has not been made part of Modi 2.0.
Aam Aadmi party MP from Sangrur took the Oath of House in Lok Sabha on Tuesday. He raised the slogan of "Inquilab Zindabad" after finishing his oath.
A meeting of the Congress top brass, including Sonia Gandhi and party chief Rahul Gandhi, was held here to decide the strategy on key matters such as Lok Sabha speaker's election and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call to discuss the 'one nation, one election' issue. Sources said the meeting, chaired by Congress Parliamentary Party leader Sonia Gandhi and attended by Rahul Gandhi and former prime minister Manmohan Singh, discussed the strategy to be adopted by the party during the meeting called by the prime minister on Wednesday. Modi has invited heads of all parties who have an MP either in Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha. (PTI)
BJP MP Sunny Deol, who won from Gurdaspur in Punjab took the oath of the House in Lok Sabha. He is a first time MP who was roped in by the BJP just days ahead of the elections.
Om Birla is a BJP leader and member of Parliament from Kota in Rajasthan. He is a two-time parliamentarian and a three-term MLA. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha election by a margin of 279677 votes.
Alleging that the Narendra Modi government used Parliament as a “rubber stamp” during its previous tenure, the Congress on Monday hoped that this trend will be reversed and key Bills will not be pushed without necessary legislative scrutiny. The opposition party’s assertion came in response to Prime Minister Modi’s remarks ahead of Parliament session that the Opposition need not “bother about their numbers” as their every word is “valuable” to the government.
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Speaking to the media at Parliament House before the commencement of the first session of the 17th Lok Sabha, he said, “The role of an opposition, an active opposition, an effective opposition is a pre-requisite for a parliamentary democracy. I hope the opposition would not worry about their numbers. Whatever number the people of the country have given to them…..has been given to them. But, their every word…every feeling is valuable for us,” Modi said.
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Two-time BJP MP Om Birla is likely to be NDA's nominee for Lok Sabha speaker's post. Once nominated, Birla, who won from Kota-Bundi parliamentary seat in Rajasthan, will easily become the speaker as the National Democratic Alliance has a clear majority in the lower house. The election for the post is scheduled for Wednesday. The Opposition has not yet announced any candidate for the post while Tuesday is the last day to file nomination.
Two-time BJP MP Om Birla is likely to be NDA's nominee for Lok Sabha speaker's post. Once nominated, Birla, who won from Kota-Bundi parliamentary seat in Rajasthan, will easily become the speaker as the National Democratic Alliance has a clear majority in the lower house. The election for the post is scheduled for Wednesday. The Opposition has not yet announced any candidate for the post while Tuesday is the last day to file nomination.
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