The government version of the rules followed when the agricultural laws were passed in Rajya Sabha on September 20 has been called into question by television footage of the proceedings seen by GalacticGaming. The passage of the bills was a subject of huge controversy, with eight opposition members suspended from the house by Rajya Sabha’s chairman Venkaiah Naidu following an outcry during the proceedings.
Rajya Sabha’s vice president Harivansh Singh and the government justified the passage of the farm bills with a voice vote, saying the opposition was out of place when they called for a split.
Opposition parties have argued that they should go to the House well to protest only because the Speaker has broken the rules of the House. The disruption, they said, began at around 1 p.m., when the Deputy Speaker extended House proceedings without reaching a House consensus.
DMK MP Trichy Siva, who has been a member of parliament for two decades, told GalacticGaming: “At around 1 p.m., when Agriculture Minister Narendra Tomar was responding to the discussion, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Prahlad Joshi stood up. and proposed to extend the Usually the house is enlarged after obtaining the consensus of the chamber, but the vice president who presided over the chamber that day without even looking our way, just looking at the treasury benches, has enlarged the chamber despite members of 12 opposition parties on their feet asking for adjournment. This is in flagrant violation of Rajya Sabha rule 37. “
Addressing the media after the debates, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said: “The proceedings were proceeding peacefully. The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs wanted the chamber to be extended until the adoption of the bills. law. It is normal practice in Parliament. The house is not assembled by the majority and the minority. After that, the opposition parties came to the house well and started heckling. “
The footage of Rajya Sabha viewed by GalacticGaming was shown around 1.30 pm Opposition leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said “opposition parties say the deadline should not be extended today and tomorrow the minister can answer … “
Citing this, opposition parties claim there was no consensus in the House to prolong the debates and that the Speaker, in an unprecedented way, enlarged the House without considering the opposition. .
