Parliament Monsoon Session 2024 Highlights: Rajya Sabha adjourned till 11am tomorrow

Parliament Monsoon Session 2024 LIVE Updates: Lok Sabha adjourned. House proceedings to begin at 11am tomorrow.

Parliament Monsoon Session 2024 LIVE Updates: BJP MP Raj Kumar Chahar said the Union Budget 2024 is meant for every section of society and that the government doesn't need lectures from the opposition parties. He said the Budget will deliver justice and boost employment opportunities.

Parliament Monsoon Session 2024 LIVE Updates: Rajya Sabha adjourned. House proceedings will begin tomorrow at 11am.

Parliament Monsoon Session 2024 LIVE Updates: People in Bihar are aware of the work done by the “so-called double engine government” as many bridges have washed away in the last six months, said Congress Rajya Sabha MP Akhilesh Prasad Singh. “People who cross bridges recite Hanuman Chalisa and pray to Lord Shiva for their safety,” he added.

Parliament Monsoon Session 2024 LIVE Updates: Shiv Sena (UBT) Lok Sabha MP Ganpat Sawant said that out of 1,200 candidates, only three from Maharashtra have been selected for the Income Tax Department through the Staff Selection Commission, and this needs to be probed.

Parliament Monsoon Session 2024 LIVE Updates: Speaking to PTI about the renaming of Rashtrapati Bhavan's 'Durbar Hall' and 'Ashok Hall' to 'Ganatantra Mandap' and 'Ashok Mandap,' Congress MP Shakti Singh said, “According to the Constitution, the President works based on the aid and advice of the government. This government specializes in changing names... They have changed these names because they have nothing else left to do.”

Parliament Monsoon Session 2024 LIVE Updates: “I am a chartered accountant and can confidently say the old tax regime was better as it promoted savings by incentivising investments in employee provident funds and medical insurance,” said YSRCP Rajya Sabha MP V Vijayasai Reddy.

Parliament Monsoon Session 2024 LIVE Updates: “The Union Budget 2024 is like oxygen for Andhra Pradesh, which is on ventilator due to the wrongdoings of the YSRCP government. Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu is releasing white papers on various sectors, which give a clear picture of the damage done by the previous government,” said CM Ramesh in the Lok Sabha.

Parliament Monsoon Session 2024 LIVE Updates: "Whether it is Akhilesh Yadav or any other Samajwadi Party leaders, they have won some seats (in Lok Sabha elections) because of their lies. Despite they have lost, they are acting like they have won. Every state has something for it in the Budget and it is an epitome of 'Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas'," says BJP MP Arun Singh told PTI.

Artificial Intelligence is beneficial for the USA and other developed nations, but in India, 83% of people are unemployed, said Kapil Sibal. He added, “The Economic Survey states that 0.3% to 0.4% of job losses will occur in the IT sector, which is expected to lose the most jobs.”

The Rajya Sabha MP said that people in the country have been paying various types of taxes but do not receive high-quality services in return. “We in India today pay taxes like in England but receive services like in Somalia,” he said in the upper house.

"Ruling parties are angered. When Rahul Gandhi stood up, their ministers started proving their loyalty to PM Modi. Today when Charanjit Channi was demanding MSP law, then as well three ministers were trying to suppress it. The BJP govt has developed a habit to be loyal to PM Modi instead of the country," says PTI quoted Gaurav Gogoi as saying.

"They haven't given anything to any state, every state is worried. They haven't given anything to Bihar and Andhra Pradesh. Bihar has been given a power plant and a road, what's going to happen with that? They didn't do anything about inflation, unemployment. Bihar didn't get special state status. I believe they have betrayed all the states in the Budget," Rajeev Shukla told PTI.

Harbhajan Singh said he has been submitting notice for the question hour for the last three days but didn't get the opportunity to speak. “My issue was to expand Amritsar airport. Since there is no direct flight from Amritsar to America or Canada, people from Punjab have to come to Delhi first,” Singh told ANI.

Parliament Monsoon Session 2024 LIVE Updates: Nishikant Dubey said the population of tribals in the Santhal Pargana area was 36% in 2000 and has now reduced to 26%, but there is no debate over it in the House. The Jharkhand government is not taking any measures against this problem, and illegal immigrants from Bangladesh are marrying women from the tribal community.

In Lok Sabha, former Punjab Chief Minister and Congress MP Charanjit Singh Channi talks about 'Waris Punjab De' leader and independent MP from Khadoor Sahib, Amritpal Singh. He said, "They speak about Emergency every day. But what about the undeclared Emergency in the country today?...This too is Emergency that a man who was elected as an MP by 20 lakh people in Punjab is behind bars under the NSA. He is unable to present the views of the people of his constituency, here. This too is Emergency."

"Politics and Budget is not different... they are related. If politics was not there then Bihar and Andhra Pradesh would not have got the special packages. I feel that the government should have given a package to Uttar Pradesh as well as the people voted BJP to a historic victory," says Samajwadi Party MP Dimple Yadav.

"Abhishek Banerjee has said everything. I believe that the government is on borrowed time and the PM is also on borrowed time. There is great disappointment with the Budget. It is evident that the Budget is not for running the government but for saving the government. However, we have no complaints with that has been done for Bihar, Andhra Pradesh," says TMC MP Shatrughan Sinha

Parliament Monsoon Session 2024 live Updates: Lok Sabha proceedings have been adjourned till 3pm amid heated debate between oppsoition and treasury benches.

Parliament Monsoon Session 2024 live Updates: Congress alleges BJP minister Ravneet Bittu 'tried to attack' Congress's Channi in Lok Sabha after heated debate.

Parliament Monsoon Session 2024 live Updates: The Lok Sabha was adjourned for 30 minutes due to a heated exchange between Congress member Charanjeet Singh Channi and BJP's Ravneet Singh Bittu over personal remarks.

During a debate on the Union Budget, Channi mentioned the assassination of Bittu's grandfather, former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh. This sparked a verbal clash, with Bittu, who recently left Congress for BJP, retaliating with personal comments about Channi and former Congress president Sonia Gandhi. BJP member Sandhya Ray, who was presiding over the session, adjourned the House until 2 pm.

Parliament Monsoon Session 2024 live Updates: A row erupted in the Lok Sabha after BJP’s Ravneet Bittu labeled Congress leader Charanjeet Singh Channi as the ‘most corrupt.’ The House was adjourned until 2 p.m.

Parliament Monsoon Session 2024 live Updates: Aviation regulator DGCA is investigating the Air India Express cabin crew strike incident in May that had resulted in several flight cancellations and the airline will be penalised in case there were any non-compliance with regulations, Civil Aviation minister K Rammohan Naidu said on Thursday.

In response to queries in the Lok Sabha related to flight cancellations, Naidu said the ministry was ensuring that there were no cancellations and delays as he emphasised that Civil Aviation Requirements (CARs) were in place to ensure that passengers received compensation.

"We acknowledge that there has been an issue with Air India Express … There were some internal issues with the crew as Air India Express was merging with AirAsia India and a mass strike happened (on May 7)," the minister said during the Question Hour.

Parliament Monsoon Session 2024 live Updates: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh Narayan Singh and other leaders paid floral tributes to former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on the occassion of his birth anniversary.

Parliament Monsoon Session 2024 live Updates: Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha begin its proceeding in the Budget session.