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Entire Opposition, including Jagan, suspended from AP Assembly

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Entire Opposition, including Jagan, suspended from AP Assembly

All the opposition members present in the house, including the leader of opposition YS Jaganmohan Reddy, have been suspended ​from the Andhra Pradesh Assembly till the completion of the ongoing debate on Dr Ambedkar, taken up on the occasion of latter’s 125 th birth centenary.

The resolution was moved by legislative affairs minister Yanamala Ramakrishnudu in the House.
The House adopted the motion with voice amid slogan chanting against the move by YSRCP MLAs.
The motion moved against the opposition as they did not allow the discussion on the contributions of Dr Ambedkar. The opposition wants a debate on the Call Money racket that has been rocking the state for past one week be taken up first. The incident took place after the resumption of the proceedings following an adjournment for ten minutes after the house sat for second of winter session.

Speaker allowed the discussion on Dr Ambedkar to continue as it could not be completed yesterday.
The opposition members, however, continued their agitation in the well raising slogans of their demand. A couple speakers from ruling TDP spoke on Babasaheb. As the commotion continued, Yanamala Ramakrishnudu took the permission of the chair to move the suspension resolution.

The members, however, continued the agitation even after the adoption of the motion squatting in the well.The house reverberated with the slogans. Speaker requested them to go out of the House. With the opposition unrelenting, Speaker ordered House Marshals to lift them out of the House.

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Call Money high on the agenda of YSRC

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Call Money high on the agenda of YSRC

The opposition YSR Congress has decided to highlight all the people’s issues in Assembly commencing tomorrow but the Call Money cum sex racket, that rocked the state in the past two days, is at the top of agenda its agenda.

The party claimed that the TDP government had canceled the leave of Vijayawada police commissioner Sawang to handle the serious case only after the Opposition party put pressure on it. The party described it as a knee jerk reaction of the government. All the issue the party going to raise in the Assembly had been discussed in the YSRCLP meeting held this morning.

“Besides the Call Money cum sex racket, we will also raise the Government policy on bauxite mining which goes against the tribal interests and harms the ecology of the region. This apart, the issue of anganwadi, asha workers, the plight of contract workers, the issues of drought and floods will be taken up on priority basis. We will also demand the payment of MSP, purchase of discolored paddy and failure to control the prices of essential commodities,” Party Deputy Floor leader Jyothula Nehru, MLC Pillii Subhashchandra Bose and MLA Uppuleti Kalpana said after the meeting, which was chaired by Party President YS Jagan Mohan Reddy.

“The Vijayawada Commissioner of Police cancelling his leave and resuming duty has raised the hopes of many victims. We hope that there will be no interference in his functioning. We demand that a Special Investigation Team (SIT) be set up to expedite the investigation and protection should be provided to those women who have openly come out and complained against scam operators,” they said.
They also demanded that the session be extended giving ample time to the House to take up all the important issues that cropped up recently .

A bad precedent had been set in with ministers announcing the number of days of the assembly session which is otherwise the prerogative of the Business Advisory Committee (BAC), they said and added that the session should be longer enough to discuss all pressing issues concerning the people.

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How Disruptions Hurt Parliament’s Upper House

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How Disruptions Hurt Parliament’s Upper House

While the winter session of Parliament started with controversial debates on intolerance, the Rajya Sabha (the upper house of Parliament) had to be adjourned for the fourth time before lunch due to disruptions caused by the National Herald case.

Our analysis of data show that the Rajya Sabha is struggling to work because of disruptions. During the previous session, the Rajya Sabha worked no more than nine hours over a three-and-half week period, from July 21 to August 13, 2015.

“Governance in India, like Italy and others earlier, is caught in a logjam of far too many checks and not enough balance,” Bijayant ‘Jay’ Panda, Lok Sabha MP from Odisha, wrote recently in a blog in The Times of India.

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One reason for disruptions in the Rajya Sabha has been the lack of majority for any party or alliance in the house. While debate is necessary, the lack of majority leads to lack of consensus and constant logjams.

The debate on intolerance was not among the listed business for the session.

“Parliament will meet for the winter session between November 26 and December 23, 2015. The legislative agenda includes 19 bills currently pending in Parliament for consideration and passage. 14 new bills are proposed to be introduced. Out of these, one will also be taken up for consideration and passing. Two bills will be withdrawn.” These are the some of the details of the agenda of the winter session, according to a report by PRS Legislative Research, a think tank on parliamentary affairs.

As many as 312 bills have been pending in the Lok Sabha between 2014 and 2015 and 71 in the Rajya Sabha, according to Lok Sabha (the lower house of Parliament) data.

Over the past five sessions, since the new Lok Sabha was created after the 2014 general elections, 61 bills were passed in the Lok Sabha and only three in the Rajya Sabha.

While the Lok Sabha has more legislative powers, bills lapse when it is dissolved. The same happens in the Rajya Sabha, if bills are pending there.

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Regular disruptions in the house are a loss to the exchequer. During the monsoon session earlier this year, the estimated loss was Rs 29,000 per minute, according to an NDTV study.

“What happens when consensus cannot be reached and parties are not willing to soften their stand? Would Parliament not function at all? If the last few years provide any indication, there’s an urgent need to insulate the Parliament’s functioning from the vagaries of the political climate,” Chakshu Roy, head of outreach at PRS Legislative, wrote in the Indian Express recently.

Courtesy : Indiaspend

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