Tag: LOK SABHA

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has his way with words. His vocabulary is filled with words like floccinaucinihilipilification (the action or habit of estimating something as worthless) and hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia (the fear of long words), which makes even the eloquent English speakers rush to find their dictionary.

Janakpuri assembly constituency is one of the seventy assembly constituencies of Delhi in northern India. Janakpuri assembly constituency is a part of West Delhi Lok Sabha constituency.

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday wrote to European Parliament President David Maria Sassoli over the resolutions moved against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in that legislature, saying it is inappropriate for one legislature to pass judgement on another and the practice can be misused by vested interests. Birla also asserted that as members of the Inter Parliam

Rajya Sabha has a total of 240 MPs, while 5 seats are vacant. In such a situation, the majority figure is 121 on a total of 245 seats. Out of 245, 125 MPs were already in support of the Bill, while 113 MPs opposed it. 2 MPs had not made their stand clear.

Amid a lot of chaos and opposition in the Parliament after the introduction of the Citizenship Amendment Bill. The debates in the Lok Sabha, brought Minister of Home Affairs, Amit Shah in the box who then explained the crucial difference between refugees fleeing religious persecution and infiltrations, along with asserting extending the exercise of National Register of Citizens, pan-India. Briefly, the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019 offers citizenship for irregular immigrants from the Hindu, Buddhist, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis and Christian from neighbouring countries of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh