While several MPs posed with him for a photo-op with new broomsticks, Birla also helped himself to a dust-pan to actually lift some garbage and put it into a waste bin.
As the speech had eaten well into lunch time, Naidu told the member, who was trying to make a point while Sitharaman was speaking, that nothing of what he was saying was going on record anyway, so why was he “wasting energy”.
Keen to encourage young and new lawmakers to participate in parliamentary proceedings and debate, he urges them to give notices on time and speak on issues.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar found time to meet Vijay Amritraj, India’s tennis legend.
As Yadav came into the House, three minutes before it resumed after lunch, BJP’s Nishikant Dubey went up to him and asked how he was doing. NCP’s Supriya Sule touched Yadav’s feet, helped him take his seat and fix the headphone - “it’s good to see him”, she said.
Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat credits his school teacher for his handwriting.
The opposition is now keen to put the government on the mat on these issues during the Budget this week.
While party men discussed the fallout of his resignation and the road ahead, the media dissected the pros and cons of Rahul’s move. At the centre of all attention, Rahul, however, took some time off to watch a movie.
In one tweet, he lashed out at national award winner Zaira Wasim, who announced her decision to quit acting saying it interfered with her faith and religion.
Modi is learnt to have told them that he had records on their performance in Parliament, their attendance in the House and in Parliamentary committees, issues they raise in the House, and work in their respective constituencies.
In the previous Lok Sabha, about 60 new members could speak during the course of the full first session. Birla’s generosity stems from his personal experience.
Even as Amit Shah said that the leadership of PM Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh had ensured a tough stance against terrorism, Singh was seen frequently prompting and assisting Shah through written notes during his speech.
AM Arif, representing Alappuzha constituency of Kerala in the Lok Sabha, caused a stir in the House as he started reading his Zero Hour “special mention” from a smartphone.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, who had started off conducting business in a very strict manner, chose to turn a new leaf on Wednesday.
One gets to hear that a group of former AICC office-bearers, ex-MPs and former Youth Congress national- and state-level officer-bearers met at Punjab Bhawan on Tuesday to discuss the crisis in the party.
Trinamool Congress’s Derek O’Brien, BSP’s Satish Mishra and Congress’s Digvijaya Singh, who would have spoken on Monday, will now speak on Tuesday, after Modi has given his reply.
Goyal tweeted that with the help of the footage captured in CCTVs in a train, the Railway Protection Force was able to nab within 48 hours two thieves who were allegedly stealing mobile phones of passengers.
At one point, when Ajay Kumar Mishra, BJP MP from Lakhimpur Kheri, was taking his time to ask a question, Birla asked him to hurry up.
BJP leaders are seeing Shah’s move as an exercise to motivate the cadres, and posting these letters on social media.
He has been provided an office that was so far being used by party chief Amit Shah to meet party workers.
A seven-time MP who served terms in both Houses of Parliament, Swaraj has now applied to the Lok Sabha Secretariat for an ex-MP card.
The order of oath-taking — first the ministers and then Members elected from states and Union Territories in alphabetical order — left no scope for a short-cut.
Amit Shah is likely to continue as BJP national president until the seven-month-long exercise of the party’s membership drive and organisational elections concludes.
Rahul Gandhi is abroad and the leadership vaccum has forced the Congress chief ministers to take matter into their own hands as there is not direction coming from the AICC. Personally, Nath is also perhaps trying to emerge as a central force among the party’s five chief ministers.
There is a strong possibility that his party may bring him back to the Upper House.




