Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee today said that the winter session of the state Assembly would begin on 25 November and would continue for 10-11 days. This was decided following consultation with the chief minister, said the Speaker.
Opposition members of Parliament’s Joint Committee on the Waqf Amendment Bill, 2024 on Tuesday wrote a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla over "gross violation" of parliamentary code of conduct during the committee’s meeting on Monday.
A delegation of BJP MLAs led by Leader of the Opposition in the Delhi Assembly Vijender Gupta met Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel on Friday and submitted a letter to him demanding the extension of the upcoming Assembly session to seven days from two days.
The Speaker had been sitting on the defection petitions against dissident MLAs, Danam Nagender, Kadiyam Srihari and Venkata Rao Tellam submitted to him prompting the BRS to seek intervention of the High Court on the issue.
As the proceedings of the Zero Hour began on Friday, the LoP raised the issue of uproar while replying to demands made for grants on Thursday and the conduct of the ministers.
Chairing a meeting of the Presiding Officers of legislative bodies in India in the Parliament House Complex, the Lok Sabha Speaker requested Members of Parliament and political parties not use routine parliamentary information for creating news. Birla further requested that the dignity of Parliament as an institution may be maintained.
The four-week Monsoon Session of Parliament is scheduled to begin on 18 July. The government has also convened an all-party meeting on Sunday ahead of the session.
The AAP government has said on many occasions that the Delhis MLAs salary is among the lowest as compared to their counterparts in other states.
An MLA in Delhi at present gets a sum of Rs 54,000 per month as salary and allowances, which is likely to increase to Rs 90,000 after the hike.
Narwekar took charge as the speaker of Maharashtra assembly amid chants of "Jai Bhavani, Jai Shivaji", "Jai Sri Ram", "Bharat Mata ki Jai" and "Vande Mataram".
