According to the news agency PTI, the parliamentary winter meeting may end on Wednesday, one day earlier than the schedule. The meeting started on November 29 and was originally scheduled to end on December 23.

The news agency quoted sources as reporting that as the government completes most of the legislative agenda, Parliament may adjourn indefinitely on Wednesday.

The report was released the day after Parliament passed a bill linking voter roll data with Aadhaar on Tuesday. The opposition also went on strike to commemorate their protest against the bill, and after the leader of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) Derek O’Brien threw a rule book into the press booth, the Rajya Dramatic events broke out on Sabha and he was suspended by the House of Representatives. “Unruly behavior.”

The 2021 Electoral Law (Amendment) Bill, which has been passed by both houses of parliament, aims to eliminate duplicate content in the voter roll and increase the credibility of the process. The bill is a slogan passed through opposition parties. The opposition leaders then went on strike because their request to submit the bill to the special committee was rejected.

The bill was passed after an hour-long discussion with members of several political parties that supported the bill.

Since the beginning of the meeting on November 29, the parliament has been disrupted and adjourned because Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu suspended the unruly behavior of 12 parliamentarians during the monsoon meeting. Since then, the suspended parliamentarians have held daily protests near the statue of Gandhi in the parliament building.

Some members of the opposition also caused commotion in the house and asked the government to lift the suspension.

The suspended members included six members from the Congress-Phulo Devi Netam, Chhaya Verma, Ripun Bora, Rajamani Patel, Syed Nasir Hussain and Akhilesh Prasad Singh. It also includes two from Trinamool Congress (Dola Sen, Shanta Chhetri), two from Shiv Sena (Priyanka Chaturvedi, Anil Desai), and two from CPI (Binoy Viswam) and CPM (Elamaram Kareem).

In August, during the passage of the General Insurance Business (Nationalization) Amendment Act in 2021, after opposition members stormed into the House of Representatives, the upper house of the Parliament called a marshal.

Complete News Source : Hindustan Times