Both Houses of Parliament were adjourned for the day just an hour after convening on Monday as the presiding officers rejected demands from Opposition MPs to discuss the alleged bribery charges involving the Adani Group.
In a huge setback to the Congress, the BJP has managed to pull off a victory for its candidate in the lone Rajya Sabha seat in Himachal Pradesh despite having only 25 MLAs in the 68-member Assembly.
The Rajya Sabha on 21 December passed the omnibus Telecom Bill 2023 that provides for the Centre to temporarily take control of telecom services in the interest of national security.
In a dramatic turn of events, the suspension of 79 Opposition MPs in a single day has been exacerbated by an additional 49 members facing same action today. This escalates the total tally of suspended MPs this session to an astounding 141, setting a new record for the highest number of suspensions in parliamentary history.
In an unprecedented development, 78 MPs, including both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha members, were suspended today for staging protests in demand of a statement by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on the security breach in Parliament last week.