Virtual House meets
When the rest of the country can carry on with their work and meetings using technology during the Covid-19 lockdown, why can’t India’s members of Parliament? On Thursday, Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu, who is also chairman of the Rajya Sabha, held a meeting at his residence with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla regarding this. The two discussed the feasibility of holding meetings of parliamentary committees during the lockdown. Naidu and Birla agreed that the committees should resume their meetings at the earliest, and alternative means of doing so must be explored if the situation did not allow that.