Parliament Budget Session Highlights: ‘Budget prepared at very difficult time, external challenges are severe,’ says FM Nirmala Sitharaman in RS

Lok Sabha adjourned till March 10.

As report of the Joint Committee on the Waqf (Amendement) Bill is being laid on the table, Opposition MPs create ruckus in Lok Sabha.

Discussion on Union Budget resumes in Rajya Sabha and Darshana Singh, BJP MP from Uttar Pradesh says the Budget favours farmers, women and poor.

As Question Hour goes on in Rajya Sabha, CPIM MP John Brittas raised the query on the "release of Nimisha Priya" from Yemen jail. MoS External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh said its a sensitive matter and the Centre is providing all possible assistance. Singh reiterated that its now a matter between the family of the deceased and kin of Nimisha Priya.

Nimisha Priya, a woman from Kerala, was sentenced to death for the murder of a local man in 2017 in Yemen.

Saket Gokhale, TMC MP from West Bengal called the "deletion of dissent notes" from JPC report, "censorship" and "unparliamentary act".

"The Minister (Kiren Rijiju) has said categorically...but we have been mislead...its outrageous that Opposition MPs who know the rules are misleading the House," Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman says.

Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge claimed that the dissent remarks have been deleted from the JPC report on Waqf (Amendment) Bill. Calling it condemnable, anti-democratic, Kharge urged Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar to reject the report and send it back.

Kharge claimed that statements of non-stakeholders are included in the report.

Proceedings resume in Rajya Sabha

As soon as proceedings began, Opposition MPs started sloganeering and Lok Sabha has been adjourned till 2 pm.

Apart from the new I-T Bill, the report on Waqf (Amendment) Bill prepared by the joint committee is likely to be presented in Lok Sabha today. The panel, including Opposition and BJP MPs, submitted its report to LS Speaker Om Birla on January 30 and the committee had adopted the report on the draft legislation by a 15-11 majority vote. BJP members insisted that the Bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha in August last year, seeks to bring modernity, transparency and accountability in the management of Waqf properties. On the other hand, the opposition termed it an attack on the constitutional rights of the Muslim community and interference in the functioning of Waqf boards.

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Union Minister for Finance Nirmala Sitharaman is likely to table new I-T bill in Lok Sabha today and the report on Waqf Bill is likely to be taken up for discussion in the Lower House.