Parliament Highlights: AAP MP Raghav Chadha suspended; Sanjay Singh's suspension extended in Rajya Sabha

“Suspending MPs. Weaponizing privilege motions to throttle every voice of dissent. PM Narendra Modi listen carefully- all these assaults on democracy will not deter INDIA,” TMC MP Derek O'Brien on Twitter after RS chairman suspends AAP MPs Raghav Chadha, Sanjay Singh.

Union Minister Jyotiraditya M. Scindia says, "From the past month since when the activities for the upcoming Lok Sabha and Vidhan Saha election started, we are listening to the reference of Ramayana and Mahabharata a lot both in the house and outside the house...But I believe that the people of our country are well aware and they'll only remove their masks."

Rajya Sabha concludes for Monsoon session

“The fact that India had to wait for 75 years to decolonise its criminal justice system speaks volumes of the kind of intellectual and mental slavery that plagued the earlier regimes. This is a great step towards decolonisation,” says BJP leader Tejasvi Surya on tabling of three bills to replace IPC, CrPC and Indian Evidence Act.

Rajya Sabha returns The Integrated Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2023 to Lok Sabha after consideration.

“Deeply pained by the behaviour of the members of the house,” Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar

‘I do not condone this behaviour. The dishonour of House not acceptable. It is anti-democratic,’ says RS Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar.

Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar announces, "...I suspend Raghav Chadha from the service of the Council till the Council has the benefit of the report by the Committee of Privileges."

“On 56 occasions AAP MP Sanjay Singh appeared in the well of the house. This repeated and deliberate misconduct deserves to be noted and recognised by India. I seek suspension of Sanjay Singh till committee of privileges investigates.”

Parliament approves amendments to Central and Integrated GST laws

Raghav Chadha suspended from Rajya Sabha

Rajya Sabha Leader Piyush Goyal speaks on the Delhi-NCT bill

The Rajya Sabha on Friday bid farewell to five members, including BJP leader Jugalsinh Lokhandwala (BJP) who will retire on August 18, and recalled their contribution to the House.

Out of the nine retiring members, four have been re-elected and the House will miss the other five members, Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar said.

Four members -- S Jaishankar of BJP and three AITC members Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, Derek O Brien and Dola Sen -- have been re-elected to the Upper House while the five retiring members are Jugalsinh Lokhandwala and Dineshchandra Jemalbhai Anavadiya of the BJP, Sushmita Dev and Shanta Chhetri from the AITC and Pradip Bhattacharya from Congress.

Rajya Sabha proceedings resume

Speaker Om Birla addresses Lok Sabha about the session’s achievements as it draws to a close. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is present in the House.

Mr. Birla highlights that the Lok Sabha discussed the no-confidence motion for more than 19 hours. 22 billls were passed by the House.

After playing of Vande Mataram, the House is adjourned sine die.

Speaker Om Birla addresses Lok Sabha about the sessions achievements as it draws to a close. After playing of Vande Mataram, the House is adjourned sine die.

Amid rising prices of onions in parts of India, the central government has started releasing the staple vegetable from its buffer stock.

The central government had earlier decided it will maintain 3 lakh tonne of onions in the 2023-24 season as buffer stock. In 2022-23, the government maintained 2.51 lakh tonne onion as buffer stock.

Buffer stock is maintained to meet any exigencies and for price stabilisation, if rates go up significantly during the lean supply season.

Rohit Kumar Singh, Secretary Food and Public Distribution department in a meeting on Thursday with the Managing Directors of the government’s agricultural marketing agencies -- National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) and National Cooperative Consumers' Federation of India Limited (NCCF) -- finalized the modalities for disposal.

Lok Sabha adjourned sine die

Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla logs the number of bills presented in the house. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is present in Lok Sabha

Lok Sabha proceedings resumes

In the Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, provision of bail if one half of maximum period of punishment under the crime committed the person has stayed in jail during trial.

In a bid to mark an end to ‘colonial slavery’ Union Home minister Amit Shah on Friday, introduced three bills in the Lok Sabha on the last day of the Monsoon sessions of the Parliament on Friday and underlined that these Bills will deal with matter of terrorism, issues of mob-lynching and crime against women with an iron fist and that the new bill on IPC will completely repeal the offence of sedition.

Shah after introducing the Bill requested Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to suggest the Bills to Parliamentary standing committees for review.

“Criminal laws should be by Indians, for Indians. Today we have brought three Bill which end 3 colonial laws and all these bills are going to fulfill one of the five vows taken by PM Modi on 15 August at the Red Fort last year. “From 1860 to 2023, the country's criminal justice system functioned as per the laws made by the British. The three laws will be replaced and there will be a major change in the criminal justice system in the country,” Shah said during the introduction of the two Bills.