TMC member Derek O’Brien makes an attempt to tear the Rule E book throughout the ruckus in Rajya Sabha on Sunday. (Screengrab)
Earlier within the day, Chairman Venkaiah Naidu expressed “deep ache” over yesterday’s incident, and handed a movement of suspension towards eight opposition MPs over their “unruly behaviour”. Naidu additionally rejected the opposition’s no-confidence movement towards Deputy Chairman Harivansh following the uproar yesterday.
On Sunday, the uproar within the Higher Home broke out over the Deputy Chairman’s choice to increase the session past the scheduled 1 pm whereas overruling Opposition pleas to proceed discussions on the contentious farm Payments the following day. The Home witnessed tumultuous scenes during the passage of the contentious farm payments as members from Opposition events snatched and threw papers from the desk and even broke the chairman’s mic.
Dismissing Opposition objections and pleas, the federal government pushed by means of two key farm Payments in Rajya Sabha on Sunday amid unprecedented scenes of chaos, confusion, and ruckus. Agitated Opposition members, protesting the extension of the Home sitting past the scheduled finish at1 pm, tore copies of the Payments, broke microphones on the Chairman’s desk, flung a duplicate of the Rule E book on the presiding officer, after which sat on a dharna within the Home even after it was adjourned for the day.
By no means not sure of its numbers within the Higher Home, and on condition that many Opposition members have cited well being causes to remain away, the federal government, utilizing its numerical energy, rejected the Opposition demand to refer the Payments — The Farmers’ Produce Commerce and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Invoice, 2020, and The Farmers (Empowerment and Safety) Settlement of Value Assurance and Farm Companies Invoice, 2020 — to a choose committee for parliamentary scrutiny.
Already cleared by Lok Sabha, the Payments, handed by voice vote, will now go to the President for assent earlier than turning into legislation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a sequence of tweets after the passage of the Payments in Rajya Sabha, described it as “a watershed second within the historical past of Indian agriculture” whereas BJP members known as it “historic… a giant reform”.
