Parliament Live Updates: In a show of solidarity with the suspended MPs, the opposition parties will meet at 10 am today to discuss the proposal to take out the march by all the opposition MPs of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. A protest march has been proposed from Gandhi Statue to Vijay Chowk. Twelve MPs – six from Congress, two each from Trinamool Congress and Shiv Sena, and one each from CPI and CPI(M) – were suspended from the Rajya Sabha for the entire winter session of Parliament. Conduct in the last session in August.
The marshals were called after opposition members stormed the Well of the House during the passage of the General Insurance Business (Nationalisation) Amendment Bill, 2021, the last day of the monsoon session on August 11. On Monday, Members of Parliament from the Congress party staged a walkout from the Rajya Sabha as the standoff over the issue continued. Leader of the Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge said the government had not accepted their demand for a re-look at the suspension.
Here is all the action in Parliament:
• A Congress member in Lok Sabha raised the issue of alleged “mining of money” by companies providing online courses to aspiring candidates and auto-debiting amounts. Congress leader Karti Chidambaram questioned the quality of courses and the ability of those who teach in such companies. He claimed that there is no scrutiny of the courses offered by him. Chidambaram urged the Union Education Ministry to bring in a mechanism to check the courses and their quality.
• India has 21.03 judges per million people, the Lok Sabha was informed on Friday. In a written reply, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju said, “The population ratio of judges (judges per million population) with respect to sanctioned strength of judges is 21.03 as on October 31, 2021.” To calculate the judge-population ratio per million population in a particular year, the Department of Justice uses the criteria to calculate the population as per the 2011 Census and judges in the Supreme Court, High Courts and District and Subordinate Courts in the particular year. As per the available information regarding sanctioned strength of the State, he said that the data regarding the number of judges per million population is not maintained state or union territory wise.
• BJP ally JD(U) raised the issue of caste census in Lok Sabha on Monday and reiterated its demand for caste-wise census of population in the next general census. Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Janata Dal (United) leader Kaushalendra Kumar said the caste-wise census would help in better implementation of the reservation policy and would also provide a “scientific basis” for the same.
• The government on Monday moved a proposal in the Rajya Sabha to amend the Salary and Services Acts of Judges of the Supreme Court and High Courts to bring clarity about the date of eligibility for additional quantum of pension to a retired judge. , Union Law and Justice Minister Kiren Rijiju tabled the High Court and Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Amendment Bill, 2021 for consideration in the Upper House.
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