Without admitting No-Confidence Motions moved by TDP and several other opposition parties, Lok Sabha was adjourned sine die today (April 6, 2018). The Lok Sabha was adjourned sine die on today morning bringing an end to the Budget session – half of which was completely washed out in disruptions.
As the Lower House met, AIADMK MPs protested near the Speaker Sumitra Mahajan’s podium demanding the setting up of the Cauvery Management board.
Mahajan asked the MPs to return to their seats so that the no-confidence motion moved by opposition against the government can be taken up, but the protests continued. The Speaker then adjourned the House sine die.
Rajya Sabha Adjourned Sine Die
Meanwhile, the Rajya Sabha was also adjourned sine die concluding the budget session, half of which was completely washed out in disruptions. The upper house worked for 45 hours in around 30 sittings and lost 120 hours in disruptions.
In his valedictory remarks, Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu rued that he had little to say in terms of what the Rajya Sabha did but a lot to say what it did not.
“No legislative business apart from passing of the Payment of Gratuity Bill could be transacted. Even the general Budget was not discussed nor the Finance and Appropriation Bills were discussed and returned to the Lok Sabha,” Venkaiah Naidu said. Venkaiah lamented that even a farewell to the retiring members could not be done smoothly on the fixed day and had to be “negotiated” subsequently.
He asked the MPs to “introspect” and try to create a “win-win situation, not the lose-lose situation”.
PS: Smartly, BJP has avoided No-Confidence Motion with the “help” of AIADMK MPs. Thus, Narendra Modi has escaped from the first-ever No-Confidence Motion in his tenure without even facing discussion, debate.
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