Parliament highlights: Govt harming HAL to benefit Anil Ambani, says Rahul

BJP and Congress issued three-line whips for party parliamentarians to be present in Lok Sabha today. Here are LIVE updates from the Parliament session

12:36 PM

Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan has suspended members of AIADMK and Telugu Desam Party for disrupting House proceedings.

12:30 PM

Rajya Sabha:

 

-Bills for consideration and passing

 

* The Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Bill, 2018

 

* The Consumer Protection Bill, 2018

 

* The Representation of the People (Amendment) Bill, 2018

 

* The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2018 -Bill for consideration and return

 

The Appropriation (No 6) Bill, 2018

12:23 PM

Nirmila Sitharaman elaborates on the doubts raised by Opposition regarding the HAL deal.

 

"I would like to set all the records straight. The details of the orders with HAL are mentioned in the document. Doubts raised in this regard are incorrect and misleading," she says.

12:19 PM

Legislative business of Lok Sabha includes many bills for consideration and passing including the DNA Technology Regulation Bill 2018, the National Medical Commission Bill 2017, the Dentists (Amendment) Bill 2017, the Personal Laws (Amendment) Bill 2018, Consideration of RS amendments: NCTE (Amendment) Bill 2018, Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Amendment) Bill 2018.

12:12 PM

TDP and AIADMK members continue to chant 'we want justice'.

12:08 PM

Lok Sabha proceedings resume.

11:57 AM

Members from the Left and the SP also sought to raise certain issues from their seats and a few Left members were standing in the aisle. Within five minutes, Speaker Sumitra Mahajan adjourned the proceedings till noon as the din continued.

11:56 AM

A lone AIADMK member was also in the Well, protesting the construction of a dam across the Cauvery river. He was joined by a TDP member, who was dressed like former Tamil Nadu chief minister M G Ramachandran.

11:56 AM

Congress members, seeking to raise the Rafale fighter jet deal, trooped into the Well of the House with placards as soon as the House met for the day.

11:55 AM

Lok Sabha proceedings were adjourned till noon following protests by the Congress and other parties on various issues.

11:55 AM

Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu said he has received notices from some members under rule 267 for suspension of business to take up discussions on issues but has not allowed any of the notices.

 

He asked members to resume their places and allow the House to function.

 

"This is not the parliamentary way of functioning," he said. "You can discuss all the issues under relevant rules."

 

Repeated pleas by Naidu asking members to go back to their places went unheeded, forcing him to adjourn proceedings till 2 pm.

11:54 AM

Rajya Sabha

Left party members, too, got up to raise the raise the issue of violence by the BJP in Kerala over the entry of women in Sabrimala temple while Congress MPs sought a debate on the Rafale fighter jet deal.

11:54 AM

Members of the SP and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) were up on their feet as soon as listed official papers were presented, crying "political vendetta" in the CBI initiating a probe into alleged irregularities in the mining of minor minerals during 2012 and 2016 when Yadav held the mining portfolio in the Uttar Pradesh government.

11:54 AM

Rajya Sabha adjourned till 2 pm after opposition uproar

Rajya Sabha proceedings were adjourned till 2 pm after an uproar by opposition parties over various issues, including a CBI probe against Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on alleged illegal mining.

11:40 AM

BJP's HB Sarma on Citizenship Amendment Bill: Without that bill, we are surrendering ourselves to the philosophy of Jinnah. This is a fight between Jinnah's legacy and India's legacy. We'll see if Bill has provision to welcome Bangladeshis, but I am sure that's not there.