Budget session in Parliament Photo: PTI Budget session in Parliament Photo: PTI Lok Sabha proceedings have been adjourned till 2 pm on Thursday following uproar over the issue of deportation of illegal Indian immigrants from the United States. As soon as the House assembled, the opposition members55bmw, mostly Congress MPs were on their feet trying to raise the issue.
Speaker Om Birla tried to pacify the agitating members by saying the government has taken note of their concerns seriously.
Earlier, both the Houses of the Parliament were adjourned till noon after Opposition leaders including Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi, Manickam Tagore, KC Venugopal and Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh moved adjournment motion in their respective Houses.
A US military aircraft carrying 104 illegal Indian immigrants landed in Amritsar on Wednesday, the first such batch of Indians deported by the Donald Trump government as part of a crackdown against illegal immigrants.
Of them, 33 each are from Haryana and Gujarat, 30 from Punjab, three each from Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, and two from Chandigarh.
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Lok SabhaLok Sabha proceedings were adjourned till 2 pm on Thursday.
The opposition MPs pulled out the issue over the issue of deportation of illegal Indian immigrants from the United States as soon as the House assembled.
Speaker Om Birla tried to pacify the agitating members by saying the government has taken note of their concerns seriously.
"It is a matter of foreign policy. The foreign country also has its own rules and regulations. You can raise your issues at 12 noon and allow the Question Hour to run smoothly," he said.
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However, the protesting members ignored the Speaker's pleas and continued the protests following which Birla adjourned the House till 12 noon.
The Speaker said the Question Hour is important and a member get the opportunity after a long wait. Hence the MP should be allowed to raise the issue.
"People have chosen you to raise their issues in the House but you are resorting to protests. This method is not good," he said.
Since the first question of the day was marked for Trinamool Congress MP Kirti Azad, Birla said: "You are not allowing the member of your associate party to raise his issues. You are systematically disrupting House. This is not good".
Rajya SabhaRajya Sabha proceedings were adjourned in the pre-noon session without transacting any business on Thursday as opposition MPs tried to raise the issue of deportation of Indian immigrants from the US.
MPs from the Congress, CPI, TMC, AAP and CPM gave notices under Rule 267, that seeks to set aside listed business of the day to take up discussion on the issue being raised through them, but the chair rejected all of them.
MPs then stood in their places and raised the issue. The MPs said the US had deported the Indian immigrants in a military plane in the most inhuman manner and they are not being allowed to raise the issue in the House.
jackpot city casino onlineDeputy Chairman Harivansh, who was in the chair, first ordered that the utterances of the opposition MPs will not go on record and then adjourned the proceedings till 12 noon when they persisted with their demand.
Those who gave notices under Rule 267 included CPI's Santosh Kumar P55bmw, TMC's Sanket Gokhale, CPM's V Sivadasan and Congress leaders Anil Kumar Yadav, Shaktisingh Gohil, Pramod Tiwari, Renuka Chaudhary, and Ashok Singh.