Parliament Budget session highlights: Lok Sabha adjourned till March 2

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday hit back at former minister P Chidambaram for his 'incompetent doctors' attending to economy remark, saying there was nothing to learn from the people who gave the mountain of NPAs along with twin balance sheet crisis. Replying to the debate on her Budget for 2020-21 in Rajya Sabha, she said FDI "ran out of the country in 2012-13" under "competent doctors" overseeing the economy.

She said defence of India was paralysed and did not have equipment under the UPA.

Lok Sabha has been adjourned till March 2, 2020, when the second phase of the budget session of the Parliament will begin.

Shiv Sena leader Arvind Ganpat Sawant talks about the ill-treatment of Marathi-speaking population in Karnataka. Accusing the center of being partial, Sawant said: "It took us a long while to rename Bombay as Mumbai but they (Karnataka) renamed the Vidhan Sabha as Vidhan Soudha in no time."

The Home Ministry on Tuesday said it has no information on any group called the ‘Tukde Tukde Gang’. Replying to a written question in Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy said the ministry has no information on whether the terminology ‘Tukde Tukde Gang’ is based on specific inputs provided by law enforcement agencies.

“No such information has been brought to the notice of the government by any law enforcement agency,” he said.

The reply came in response to questions by Congress members Vincent H Pala and Jasbir Singh Gill. Read more

Lok Sabha has been adjourned till 2:30.

Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav Tuesday asked the government when former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and sitting MP Farooq Abdullah would be released from the detention by J&K administration.

Raising the issue of Abdullah's detention in Lok Sabha during the Question Hour, Yadav said, "Our colleague Farooq Abdullah used to sit with me. When will he come to the House?" However, Speaker Om Birla did not ask the government to reply to his question.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Lok Sabha: Minimum Support Price (MSP) for all mandated Rabi and Kharif crops increased in 2019-20 to boost consumption.

The government will invest over Rs 1 lakh crore in infrastructure development by 2024-25: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Lok Sabha.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Lok Sabha: In 2014-15, our economy was $2 trillion. In 2018-19, it was $2.7 trillion, in 2019-20 it is $2.9 trillion.

Economy is showing positive green suit indicators. Global sentiment is in favour of India. FDI of 24.4 bn in April-November of 2019-20.

BSP MP Veer Singh said in Rajya Sabha today that central government is anti-reservation and is slowly trying to remove it from the country. He said the government is benefitting a few crony capitalists and is degrading the public sector by promoting the private sector. There are no jobs left in the public sector, he added. 

In its order on February 7, the Supreme Court had said that states are not bound to provide reservation in job promotions.

Congress' Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury: 'Everyone knew that Aam Aadmi Party will return to power for the third time. Congress's defeat will not send a good message. The victory of AAP against the BJP and its communal agenda is significant.' (ANI)