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The ministry-wise demand for grants, the finance bill, the budget of J&K and all other bills were passed amid din and without any debate
The budget session of Parliament, characterised by acrimony especially in its second half, ended on a discordant note with several Opposition leaders skipping the customary tea at the chambers of the two presiding officers, Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla.
The session, which saw the budget being passed without discussion, saw the treasury benches clamouring for an apology by now-disqualified Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, and the Opposition, for an investigation by a Joint Parliamentary Committee into allegations by a research firm that the Adani Group, perceived to be close to Prime Minister Modi, had indulged in fraud and stock manipulation. Towards the end of the session, Gandhi was disqualified after a Gujarat court sentenced him to two years in jail in a defamation case.
On Thursday, Dhankhar, who has come under fire from the opposition for what they see as a presiding officer speaking for the government, said: “Weaponising of politics by stalling functioning of Parliament is pregnant with serious consequences for our polity.” Birla struck a similar note in the Lok Sabha: “Inappropriate conduct and behaviour in the House is not beneficial for Parliament and the nation.”
After skipping the customary tea, the Trinamool Congress’ Rajya Sabha floor leader Derek O’Brien said, “No time for niceties, when for the first time since 1950, a government have themselves raised slogans and disrupted a full session.”
The last full budget session of the Narendra Modi government turned out to be worst session of Parliament since the 2021 monsoon session in terms of performance. The BJP and the Congress-led Opposition disrupted the proceedings daily . Gandhi’s disqualification on March 24 triggered a fresh wave of Opposition protests with several non-NDA MPs coming to Parliament in black .
The ministry-wise demand for grants, the finance bill, the budget of J&K and all other bills were passed amid din and without any debate
SOURCE:REUTERS
