Parliament highlights: Nobody can defend Emergency, and you will face trouble if you do, Amit Shah tells Congress in RS

Discussion on the Ukraine issue is under way in the Lok Sabha. The Lower House was adjourned twice amid ruckus by the Opposition members after they were not allowed to discuss the price rise. Meanwhile, the RS passed the Chartered Accountants, the Cost and Works Accountants and the Company Secretaries (Amendment) Bill, 2021. It has passed the Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill. Houses stand adjourned for the day to reconvene on April 6.

Lok Sabha adjourned for the day

States, UTs reported 5,21,358 Covid deaths till Apr 4: Govt to Rajya Sabha

The Centre on Tuesday informed Parliament that confirmed death due to oxygen shortage has not been reported by any state or union territory although over 5.21 lakh fatalities due to Covid-19 have been recorded in India.

It told the Rajya Sabha that it had asked states to provide details of people who have died because of shortage of oxygen.

Rename MCD bill as Kejriwal-phobia bill: AAP MP

AAP Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh on Tuesday asked the Centre to rename the bill to reunify the city's three municipal corporations as the "Kejriwal-phobia" bill and alleged that it was brought by the BJP to avoid civic polls.

He also said in the House that to stop Arvind Kejriwal's AAP from coming to power, the Centre wants to take control of the three municipal corporations.

Rajya Sabha adjourned for the day

Rajya Sabha has passed the Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2022

The Opposition has said we are scared. Why would we be? Of what? Loss in the elections? Anybody can win, tomorrow BJP can also lose. We are asking for 6 months before the elections to implement a service. Will you lose if the elections happen six months later instead of now?: Amit Shah in Rajya Sabha defending the DMC Amendment Bill

Abhishek Manu Singhvi comes from Congress, a party which imposed the Emergency, which jailed protestors, which impinged on the freedom of press, and is talking about democracy: Amit Shah in Rajya Sabha

Congress has forgotten that in a democracy, it is not a party but the people of India who call the shots. Those who forget history, become history. I can see it in the House before me: Amit Shah in Rajya Sabha

Home Minister Amit Shah is addressing the House over DMC Amendment Bill.

Ruckus in Rajya Sabha over the DMC Amendment Bill as Opposition MPs including AAP's Sanjay Singh come to the well of the House.

Over Rs 30,160 crore loans sanctioned under Stand-Up India scheme in 6 years

Over Rs 30,160 crore loans have been sanctioned under the Stand-Up India scheme in the past six years, the Finance Ministry said on Tuesday.

Stand up India Scheme was launched on April 5, 2016, to promote SC, ST and women entrepreneurs at the grassroot level focusing on economic empowerment and job creation.

In 2019-20, the Stand Up India scheme was extended till 2025.

"More than Rs 30,160 crore loans sanctioned to over 1,33,995 accounts under Stand-Up India Scheme in 6 years," the ministry said in a statement.

The BJP was in power in MCD for 15 years but it did not want to unify it. Now, to postpone elections, it wants to run the MCD. This is just Kejriwal phobia: Sanjay Singh of AAP

Jaya Bachchan opposedthe DMC (Amendment) Bill, calling it undemocratic and an attack on the federal structure.

Row over Paswan picture, Ambedkar statue: Uncle blames Chirag

After Chirag Paswan and his mother Reena Paswan were evicted from the 12 Janpath bungalow in New Delhi, Union Minister Pashupati Kumar Paras blamed his nephew for 'throwing the photograph of Ram Vilas Paswan and the statue of Bhimrao Ambedkar' on the road to get political mileage in Bihar.

BJP successfully bulldozed Samajwadi Party and BSP in the UP elections. But Congress seems to have been vacuumed from the entire country. Even the small pockets where it had influence, it is absent now: BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi

The BJP is bringing the DMC Amendment Bill only to fight anti-incumbency. BJP can be renamed to BNP- Bharatiya Niyantran Party or Bhartiya Control Freak Party: Abhishek Manu Singhvi in Rajya Sabha

This bill is about control, more control and more control by a control freak sarkar. This is a politics of delay through delimitation going to lead to disorder, disorganisation and disaster: Abhishek Manu Singhvi on DMC (Amendment) Bill

Amit Shah is addressing the Rajya Sabha over the Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2022. "The Delhi government treats municipal corporations like a stepmother," Shah slams AAP government in the capital.

Chartered Accountants, the Cost and Works Accountants and the Company Secretaries (Amendment) Bill, 2021 passed in Rajya Sabha

Fuel prices hiked in India are 1/10th of prices hiked in other countries. Comparing gasoline (petrol) prices between Apr 2021 & Mar 22, the prices in US have increased by 51 per cent, Canada 52 per cent, Germany 55 per cent, UK 55 per cent, France 50 per cent, Spain 58 per cent but in India 5 per cent: Union MinisterHardeep Singh Puri in Lok Sabha

Sitharaman replies to the discussion on the Chartered Accountants (Amendment) bill says govt will not constitute the disciplinary bodies

Dr T Sumathi Thangapandian urges Centre to act as negotiator in the Ukraine crisis. She quotes a poem by Mahmoud Darwish to draw attention to the pain of those afflicted in war:

The war will end.
The leaders will shake hands.
The old woman will keep waiting for her martyred son.
That girl will wait for her beloved husband.
And those children will wait for their hero father.
I don’t know who sold our homeland
But I saw who paid the price.

Nobody objects when Courts, Tribunals take decisions on the same field of expertise, Why do we need expertise only in the disciplinary committee? The point of a govt appointed member to the body is removal of conflict of interest: Sushil Kumar Modi in RS

Russia has been an ally and a friend of India's. But even friends must be told when they are wrong. India must tell Russia, even if so in private that it has been 40 days into the war and bloodshed: Tewari

This conflict in Ukraine will redefine the global world order just like WWI, WWII and Cold War in a negative sense. A different kind of iron curtain seems to have descended: Congress's Manish Tewari

This iron curtain has the potential to divide the world order completely, Tewari says.

We have always been able to find a balance of himsa and ahimsa, India must take the initiative to resolve the crisis in Ukraine: NK Premachandran in LS

This is a good opoortunity for India to play a substantial role, he says

Meanwhile Lok Sabha is discussing the Ukraine situation

John Brittas also flags increased government interference in the amendment. He urges Suresh Prabhu's counsel to intervene in the bill to assure autonomy

Several members raise the issue of 'minimum governance and maximum government' contrary to the govt's initial promise, say that government nominated persons to the body will weaken its autonomy and amounts to govt interference in a trade body.

TMC MP Mausam Noor says that the bill does not solve the issue of random censorship by the ICAI.

RS BJP MP Suresh Prabhu clarifies sections of the Bill; asks for more CAs in the composition of Board of discipline. He says finding of a medical board that has more doctors than non-doctors will not be appropriate

Rajya Sabha takes up The Chartered Accountants, the Cost and Works Accountants and the Company Secretaries (Amendment) Bill, 2021 for consideration

Manickam Tagore on LS Oppn not being allowed to speak

'The Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery Systems (Prohibition of Unlawful Activities) Amendment Bill, 2022' introduced in Lok Sabha.

Lok Sabha adjouned till 2 pm; Opposition bring placards, create ruckus over fuel price hike

AITC Sukhendu Shekhar Ray raises the issue of Central government offices having signboards only in Hindi and English and not in Bengali

Naidu says all govt offices must have signboards in state language, mother language, and then English and Hindi, he says this is a mandate and must be followed.

PMC MP Ramadoss urgen Centre intervention water sharing, construction activity across River Kaveri. He raises the issue of mekedatu dam, which he says is agains the SC verdict

Deve Gowda raises the issue of drinking water shortage in Bengaluru due to the SC order based on Tribunal.

John Brittas raises the issue of NEET exams. He says it affects poor students as they do not have the money to pay for coaching classes, which is why he/she cannot pass the qualifying examination. It is a cardinal sin, he says

He says NEET inhenrently favours well-off students, making it inaccessible for others, which is against the Constitution.

Lok Sabha adjourned till 12 pm as Opposition members gather near the well of the House

Lok Sabha proceedings were on Tuesday adjourned till 12 noon following uproar by opposition parties over price rise and other issues.

As soon as the House met at 11 am, members belonging to the Congress, DMK, Trinamool Congress and Left parties entered the well raising slogans against the Modi government over price rise, especially fuel price.

TRS members also raised slogans in the well, displaying placards demanding paddy procurement from the state by the Centre.

The Shiv Sena and NCP too joined the opposition protest later.

Initially, Speaker Om Birla ignored the protests and continued the proceedings of the House.

However, as the opposition protest continued, the Speaker adjourned the House after about 25 minutes till 12 noon

Manoj Kumar Jha asks House to make manifestos legally binding

"It's a real, important issue. When we are in Opposition we say it should be enforced, when we are in position, our position is different," Naidu says, asks parties to sit together and think the issue over.

List of Business in the Lower House

RS Chairman Naidu disallows notices to suspend business: Opposition creates uproar; Chair says the issues were already discussed. Opposition says they will stage a walkout if not allowed to talk

Naidu tells Kharge that the Opposition did not speak when the opportunity was given. "You remember it now, what can i do?" he asks Kharge to sit down.

Meanwhile question hour is under way in the Lok Sabha.

Rajya Sabha: Kharge says what is the point if Opposition not allowed to speak on any important issues

Delhi | Union Home Minister Amit Shah and former Home Minister P Chidambaram greeted each other on their arrival in parliament.

WATCH: Live LS and RS proceedings here

House proceedings commence; Oppn continues protest, sloganeering

Congress revival not just a matter of importance to us alone—it is, in fact, essential for our democracy itself: Sonia Gandhi at CPP meeting

Sonia Gandhi addresses Congress Parliamentary Party meeting in Parliament's Central Hall on Tuesday

The Lok Sabha's Committee on Estimates has expressed serious concerns over the shortage of equipment in the National Disaster AResponse Force (NDRF) and asked the government to supply the necessary sanctioned equipment without further delay.

In its 13th report submitted to the Lok Sabha on Monday, the Committee said that when the panel examined the inventory of sanctioned equipment with the actual numbers of the essential response equipment, items like brick hammers, chipping hammer bits pointed, chipping hammer bits flat, multi para-monitor, oxygen concentrators, pulse oximeters and nebulisers were found short in number.

BJP MP Girish Bapat-led Committee, in its observations, found that "about 10 items, which are authorised for NDRF, do not form part of the inventory and there was a shortage of the items authorised to NDRF.

Health Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya is to move the motion to elect, in the manner as directed by the Chairman, one woman member from amongst the MPs of the House to be a member of the Central Supervisory Board, constituted under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994.

The discussion on the working of the ministry of labour and employment is also likely to conclude in the Rajya Sabha with a reply by the minister.

Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda to move that the Bill further to amend the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950

Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda to move that the Bill further to amend the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950 for inclusion of certain community in the list of Scheduled Tribes in relation to Tripura, as passed by the Lok Sabha, be taken into consideration and to be passed by the Upper House.

Centre is also likely to table the Chartered Accountants, the Cost and Works Accountants and the Company Secretaries (Amendment) Bill, 2022 for consideration and passing in the Rajya Sabha.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will move the Bill further for amendment, to be taken into consideration and to be passed.

The Centre is likely to table on Tuesday 'The Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2022' in the Rajya Sabha to unify three municipal corporations in the national capital.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will move the Bill further to amend the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957, as passed by the Lok Sabha, and be taken into consideration and to be passed.

Last week, the Lok Sabha passed the The Delhi Municipal Corporation

Congress Parliamentary Party meeting in Parliament's Central Hall. Party's LS and RS MPs to attend the meeting chaired by Sonia Gandhi

Explaining the utility of the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022, Shah on Monday said that with changing times, the new bill is extremely significant to convict criminals and enhance the power of the investigative agencies.

Lok Sabha to discuss situation in Ukraine on Tuesday.

Notices by RSP's NK Premachandran and Congress's Manish Tewari

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