Floods, thunderstorm claim 1,006 lives in May-June
India | July 18, 2018 18:04 ISTAs many as 635 people were also injured in the country due to natural calamities in the two months.
As many as 635 people were also injured in the country due to natural calamities in the two months.
Rijiju said in Rajya Sabha that 38,947 cases of rape were registered in 2016, 34,651 cases of rape were registered in 2015 and 36,735 cases of rape were registered in 2014.
He pitched for wide-ranging discussion by MPs on different issues and hoped that political parties would make maximum use of the time in Parliament to push important works.
The CBI registered as many as 314 corruption cases in first six months of this year, while at least 225 central government officers were punished for non-performance of duties over the same period of time, the govt told Lok Sabha today.
The Lok Sabha will take up the debate on the no confidence motion on Friday, July 20th. The discussion will be held for the full day, followed by voting on it.
A day after he broke his silence over 'Muslim party' row asserting that he stands with 'exploited, marginalised and the persecuted', Rahul Gandhi posted a 'pop quiz' which apparently targeted PM Modi.
Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan said that the date and timing of discussion over no-confidence motion will be decided later.
The Session will provide a total of 18 sittings spread over a period of 24 days and 48 items, including 46 Bills and 2 financial items have been identified for being taken up during the Monsoon Session.
"The BJP and the NDA will face the no-confidence motion, which the opposition wants to bring, under the leadership of Prime MInister Narendra Modi," Kumar told media.
A number of opposition parties had given notices for no confidence motion during the Budget session, but Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan had rejected all of them.
"The government would like to understand fully the reasons why the bill was not taken up for three years by the UPA government in the Lok Sabha and allowed to lapse," the letter read.
To avoid another wash-out like the previous session, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government today reached out to all parties and requested the legislators to make the monsoon session productive.
BJP leaders believe that a political narrative imbued with its Hindutva agenda will suit the party as it battles anti-incumbency in poll-bound states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh and gears up for the next Lok Sabha elections 2019.
At a meeting to decide their common strategy to corner the government during the session, starting July 18, the opposition leaders discussed major issues they want to raise in Parliament.
The meeting also has on its agenda, finalising a joint candidate for the Rajya Sabha deputy chairman's post, which fell vacant afte the end of the term of P J Kurien from the Congress on July 1.
Terming the prime minister a "peddler of untruths", the Congress also challenged him to discuss his allegations against the opposition party in Parliament during the Monsoon Session beginning July 18.
Holding the RSS-BJP and other right-wing outfits responsible for the increasing incidents of alleged hate crime and attacks on Dalits, CPI Rajya Sabha MP D Raja said Modi must answer as to why the SC/ST Act was "diluted" and why so many Dalits are being "killed" across the country.
The Upper House is providing the facility for simultaneous interpretation in five more languages of Kashmiri, Dogri, Santhali, Konkani and Sindhi.
The Monsoon session of Parliament is set to begin on July 18 and end on August 10.
Lok Sabha elections 2019: The election will be seen as a test of the strength of opposition which has been signalling a combined fight against BJP-led NDA in the next Lok Sabha polls.
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