Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Lok Sabha during the second part of the Budget Session of Parliament in New Delhi, Monday, March 14, 2022.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was accorded a rousing welcome by the BJP-led MPs in the Lok Sabha today for the party’s victory in four out of five states in the recently held elections.
As the Lok Sabha gathered for business on the first day of the second part of the budget session, the ruling party MPs raised slogans of ‘Modi, Modi’ inside the House. At that time PM Modi was present in the house. Congress President Sonia Gandhi and other opposition leaders were also present in the House.
BJP MPs gave a standing ovation to PM Modi in the House and thumped the desk. All Union ministers, including Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh, joined the ruling party MPs to welcome the Prime Minister to the House.
Prime Minister Modi entered the House when Speaker Om Birla was speaking about a parliamentary delegation from Austria, which watched the proceedings of the House from a ‘special box’.
After the Prime Minister, Union Ministers and BJP MPs had settled in, the Speaker greeted the Austrian Parliament, the Austrian Government and the Austrian people, to the House as well as to the people of India, while welcoming the Austrian delegation. The delegation was led by Wolfgang Sobotka, President of the National Council of Austria.
Birla said the team had come to India on March 13 and had already visited Agra. They will leave for Hyderabad before returning to Austria on March 17.
The Speaker also informed the House about the deaths of three former members S Singravadivel, HB Patil and Hemanand Biswal in the recent past.
Notably, the Parliament is meeting for the first time after the BJP’s mega victory in the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur. Before the elections, four states were ruled by the saffron party. In Punjab, however, the party failed to put up a strong fight. The party contested the elections in alliance with Captain Amarinder Singh’s Punjab Lok Congress. The party won only 2 seats in the border state.
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