Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, on Sunday, urged the Members of Parliament (MPs) to make ‘TB Mukt Bharat’ and ‘Nasha Mukt Bharat’ campaigns a ‘Jan-Andolan’ and develop the spirit of healthy competition among themselves to make India free from Tuberculosis (TB) disease by 2025.
A three-line whip is a strict instruction to attend and vote according to the party's position, a breach of which would normally have serious consequences.
Apart from thousands of beneficiaries from across the country the programme will be joined by Union Ministers, MPs, MLAs and local level representatives.
“Who disrespected? How? All the MPs were sitting there. I shot the video. Media is saying what (Narendra) Modi ji is saying, no one said anything,” said the Congress leader.
The whip to the party’s Rajya Sabha MPs said that very important issues will be taken up in the Upper House in the upcoming special session.
The MPs, who have been in touch with the rival camp, have claimed that they would be safe with the Shinde-led party faction supported by the Bharatiya Janata Party
Renowned former athlete PT Usha (from Kerala) and legendary music composer Ilaiyaraaja (from Tamil Nadu) could not be present in the Rajya Sabha to take the oath due to some reasons.
The states going to poll are UP, Punjab,Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur. Trinamul Rajya Sabha MP and party's national general spokesperson Derek O'Brien said that this government at the Centre has scant regard for Parliament and has total disregard for the Election Commission.
The meeting which was held at Prime Minister Modi’s official residence cum office here was attended by the first batch of 40 MPs from Uttar Pradesh.
The walkout followed repeated denial from the Chair to revoke the suspension of MPs as demanded by the Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge.
