After a week of chaos, the Parliament is reassembled on Monday with a packed agenda. The Lok Sabha had listed a number of Bills to regulate the financial sector. The Rajya Sabha was likely to take up Finance Bill, 2018, that was passed in the Lower House in the din.
But disruptions forced Rajya Sabha to be adjourned for the day, while Lok Sabha was adjourned for an hour. When reassembled, sloganeering continued, forcing the Lok Sabha Speaker to adjourn the House for the day.
Here are the live updates:
Rajnath Singh suggests we can take up the no-trust motion moved by some members. The government is ready to discuss, he says.
Unless the House is in order, I cannot take it up, the Chair says.
Lok Sabha adjourned for the day.
Lok Sabha reconvenes. Tamil Nadu MPs shout slogans asking the Centre to constitute the Cauvery Management Board.
Speaker Sumitra Mahajan proceeds with the business, despite the noise.
Members are laying papers on the Table.
Lok Sabha too has been adjourned till 12 noon amidst ruckus.
Zero Hour proceedings begin.
Members show placards and raise slogans. The Chair disallows it.
Pratap Singh Bajwa raises to speak but the House is not in order.
This is not in the interest of the country or the Parliament, says Mr. Naidu. "How long should we continue like this," he says.
House adjourned for the day.
Rajya Sabha proceedings begin. Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu is in the Chair. Various papers are being laid on the Table.
Last week's Parliament session was marred by Andhra Pradesh MPs seeking Special Category Status to their State. The TDP pulled out of the ruling coalition and moved a no-confidence motion.
Today, MP Sivaprasad attended the House dressed in a saree, to depict himself as 'Brihannala' of Mahabharata.
Here Mr. Sivaprasad is dressed as "Brihannala", taking a reference from Arjuna's disguise in Mahabharata, outside the Parliament on March 19.
