The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) held a parliamentary party meeting at the Dr Ambedkar International Center in Janpath, Delhi on Tuesday. The meeting was held outside the parliament building, because the auditorium is undergoing maintenance work, and all political party members are meeting there.

The choice of venue is important because the center is dedicated to Dalit’s determined BR Ambedkar, whose death anniversary is on Monday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Federal Minister Amit Shah, Pius Goyal, S Jaishankar, Prahad Joshi, Gitendra Singh and others, and the Chairman of the People’s Party Jagat Prakash Nada attended the meeting together.

At the meeting, the Prime Minister asked party legislators to organize plans in their respective constituencies to celebrate Padma Prize winners. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Prahad Joshi later said in an interview with reporters: “The Padma Prize has been awarded to ordinary citizens with outstanding performance. The Prime Minister said that he will organize events and these winners will have on-site contacts. “

At the time of the meeting, the opposition party adjourned repeatedly due to the suspension of 12 MPs. These leaders demanded that their suspension be revoked. As a result of the protests, Rajya Sabha held five recesses on Monday, and the House of Representatives only had 45 minutes. The suspended members include six parliamentarians, two each from Trinamool Congress and Shiv Sena, and one each from CPI and CPM: Phulo Congressmen Devi Netam, Chhaya Verma, Ripun Bora, Rajamani Patel, Syed Nasir Hussain and Akhilesh Prasad Singh; Trinamool Dola Sen and Shanta Chhetri of the conference; Priyanka Chaturvedi and Anil Desai of Shiv Sena; Elamaram Kareem of CPM; and Binoy Viswam of CPI.

During the parliamentary monsoon meeting in August, they were suspended for unruly behavior. During the passage of the General Insurance Business (Nationalization) Amendment in 2021, after opposition members stormed the House of Representatives, the bailiff was summoned.

“We explained why they had to be suspended. The country has witnessed what happened. It is recorded. If they apologize even today, we are ready to withdraw the suspension,” Prahad Joshi said today.

Since the suspension, all 12 MPs have visited the Parliament regularly and continue to sit outside the statue of Mahatma Gandhi.

News source : Hindustan times