Rajya Sabha passes Constitution Amendment bill

20:55 December 12

House adjourned

The Rajya Sabha has been adjourned till 11 am on 13th December, 2019. 

20:50 December 12

Speaker Venkaiah Naidu calls it a productive day

Speaker of the Rajya Sabha, Venkaiah Naidu called 'Thursday' a productive day.

"Today was the most productive day of this session as four Bills were passed in a day," he said. 

He further thanked all the MPs for their cooperation, adding that 'his operation depends on everyone's cooperation."  

20:44 December 12

Rajya Sabha passes Appropriation Bill, 2019

The Rajya Sabha on Thursday passed the Appropriation (No.3) Bill, 2019. It was moved by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the House. 

19:23 December 12

No GST for states, complains Jairam Ramesh

19:22 December 12

FM moves Appropriation (No.3) Bill in Rajya Sabha

19:16 December 12

Rajya Sabha passes Financial Services Centres Authority Bill, 2019

19:03 December 12

Sitharam elaborates history of Financial Services Centres Authority Bill

18:40 December 12

FM Nirmala Sitharam moves International Financial Services Centres Authority Bill in Rajya Sabha

The Rajya Sabha has taken up the International Financial Services Centres Authority Bill, 2019 for discussion. The Bill was moved by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

18:38 December 12

Constitution (126th Amendment) Bill passed

The Rajya Sabha on Thursday passed the Constitution (126th Amendment) Bill, 2019. 

17:49 December 12

House takes up Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Second Amendment) Bill for discussion

17:42 December 12

Constitution (126th Amendment) Bill passed

The Rajya Sabha on Thursday passed the Constitution (126th Amendment) Bill, 2019. 

17:20 December 12

Congress rejoins the session

17:18 December 12

Speaker calls for voting for Constitutional Amendment Bill

Rajya Sabha Venkaiah Naiducalls for everyone to vote for Constitutional (126th) Amendment Bill

17:15 December 12

Congress walks out

MPs of the Indian National Congress walked out of the Rajya Sabha amid discussions on Constitutional Amendment Bill, 2019.

16:54 December 12

Current government does not give tickets to Muslims, alleges Ghulam Nabi

Targetting the centre, leader of opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad said that the current government does not support the Muslim community in India. 

He supported his argument by saying that despite the ruling party having a majority in Uttar Pradesh, there is not single Muslim leader given a seat or even a ticket. 

16:36 December 12

Paswan compares India to a garden, says all communities deserve to rise

Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan compared India to a garden full of flowers. 

He said every community, including the SCs and STs, are like flowers that have the right to bloom(live and grow prosperously).

The leader did not stand up for the discussion in the House, but participated in it in a sitting position due to ill health. 

15:55 December 12

Congress played vote bank politics with SCs & STs for 50 years: Vijaysai Reddy

YSRCP MP V. Vijaysai Reddy alleged in the Rajya Sabha that the Congress party played vote bank politics with SCs and STs of the country and did nothing for them in the last 50 year of its government.

15:49 December 12

Centre attempting to divide and rule the country: P Wilson

DMK MP P Wilson accused the Centre of trying to divide and rule India. He said that the previous Constitutional Amendment had better provisions for all the communities.

"Yesterday you were against Muslims and today you are against Christians, seems like you are trying to divide and rule India," he said. 

15:04 December 12

Derek O'Brien, AITC MP speaks for restoring reservation for the Anglo-Indian community and said that only one Anglo-Indian has been elected to the parliament in the history. 

On the issue of SC/ST reservation, Brien said, "I urge the minister to increase the year of reservation of SC/STs to 20 or 30 years instead of 10 year,"

14:24 December 12

Union Minister of Law, Ravi Shankar Prasad, said that in case of Anglo-Indians, the provision is with the President who nominated the members, while in SC/STs the provision lies with the house.  Article 330 deals with the provisions relating to reservation of seats for SC/STs.

Based on Article 331, "President may, if he is of opinion that the Anglo-Indian community is not adequately represented in the House of the People, nominate not more than two members of that community to the House of the People."

RS Prasad pointed out that the provision says 'may' and not 'should' and the decision regarding Anglo-Indian reservation lies with the president who nominates the members. 

14:05 December 12

The Legislative Business of the motion for reference of the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 moved by Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. Following Members of the Rajya Sabha have been nominated to serve on the said Joint Committee -- Bhupender Yadav, Suresh Prabhu, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Jairam Ramesh, Vivek K. Tankha, Derek O'Brien, A. Navaneethakrishnan, Ram Gopal Yadav and Amar Patnaik.

13:03 December 12

The house is adjourned till 2 PM. 

12:53 December 12

Question hour underway

Minister of Communication, Ravi Shankar Prasad answered to queries on the introduction on 5G spectrum mobile broadband.  Dr. Jitendra Singh, MoS PMO, responded to queries on new rules regarding the RTI act. Meanwhile, Smriti Irani, Minister of Textiles responded to queries on differential tax issues in the industry. 
 

12:26 December 12

DMK raises poor GDP growth

MDMK MP Vaiko raises the poor implementation of flagship schemes of the Union government. 

"Make in India, Ease of doing business, PM Kisan Yojna are not giving tangible results. Results are not visible in the GDP growth," Vaiko said. 

"Did government analyse the poor performance of various industries and did they take any corrective efforts," questions Vaiko. 

12:01 December 12

Anti-CAB protest raised in Rajya Sabha

Congress MP Ripun Bora and AAP MP Sanjay Singh have given 'Suspension of Business Notice' in Rajya Sabha under rule 267, on 'Anti-CAB protest in Assam, Tripura and northeastern region over the Citizen (Amendment) Bill.
 

11:50 December 12

Ravi Shankar Prasad moves the Constitution (126th Amendment) Bill, 2019

New Delhi:The Thursday List of Business in Rajya Sabha includes a motion for reference of a Bill to Joint Committee and Bills for passing and return, besides the tabling of papers by several union ministers and parliamentary committees.

The Legislative Business of the motion for reference of the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 will be moved by Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.

The motion says: "That this House concurs in the recommendation of the Lok Sabha made in the Motion adopted by the Lok Sabha at its sitting held on Wednesday, that this House do join in the Joint Committee, and resolves that the following Members of the Rajya Sabha be nominated to serve on the said Joint Committee -- Bhupender Yadav, Suresh Prabhu, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Jairam Ramesh, Vivek K. Tankha, Derek O'Brien, A. Navaneethakrishnan, Ram Gopal Yadav and Amar Patnaik".

Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad will move the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Amendment) Bill, 2019. This is to further amend the Constitution of India, as passed by the Lok Sabha to be taken into consideration.

Union Minister Arjun Munda will move the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Second Amendment) Bill, 2019. The Bill, which further amends the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950 to modify the list of the Scheduled Tribes in the State of Karnataka, will be taken into consideration and passing. The Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Second Amendment) Bill, 2019.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will move the Appropriation (No.3) Bill, 2019. Bill for consideration and return. The Bill will authorise payment and appropriation of certain further sums from and out of the Consolidated Fund of India for the services of the financial year 2019-20 as passed by the Lok Sabha.

Twelve union ministers will table papers regarding their concerned ministries and different committees will also present their reports in the Upper House.

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