September 17, 2023
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RS to discuss Parliamentary journey during special session

The agenda for the first day of the session lists discussion on the parliamentary journey as the main item to be taken up during the day.   …reports Asian Lite News

Rajya Sabha will hold a discussion on the country’s parliamentary journey of 75 years on the first day of the Special Session of Parliament that is being held from September 18 to 22.

The agenda for the first day of the session lists discussion on the parliamentary journey as the main item to be taken up during the day.   

The House will take up a discussion on ‘Parliamentary Journey of 75 Years starting from Samvidhan Sabha (Constituent Assembly)- Achievements, Experiences, Memories and Learnings’. 

The government has convened an all-party meeting on September 17 for the smooth function of the two Houses in the Special session of Parliament.

The Parliament is likely to start functioning from the new building during the session.

Meanwhile, Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar hoisted the national flag at the new Parliament building on Sunday, a day before the commencement of the Special Session of Parliament.

The Special Session, starting on Monday will see parliamentary proceedings shift from the old to the adjacent new building.

Dhankhar hoisted the flag atop “Gaja Dwar” of the new Parliament building. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla was also present on the occasion.

Terming it a historic moment, the Rajya Sabha Chairman said that the country is witnessing epochal change.

“It is a historic moment. Bharat is witnessing epochal change. The world is in total recognition of the mighty power and contribution of Bharat. We are living in times, where we are witnessing development, achievements which we never dreamt of…,” Dhankhar said after the ceremony.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi, Union Ministers V Muraleedharan, Piyush Goyal, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Congress MPs Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and Pramod Tiwari were also present in the flag hoisting ceremony.

Congress president and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge had on Saturday, said he would not be able to attend the flag hoisting function and expressed disappointment over getting the invitation “quite late”.

He wrote to Rajya Sabha Secretary General PC Mody saying that he received the invite for the function only in the late evening of September 15.

“I am writing this letter with a sense of disappointment that I have received your invite for the flag hoisting function tomorrow at New Parliament Building only on September 15, 2023, quite late in the evening,” Kharge said in his letter.

Rajya Sabha LoP further said that he is currently in Hyderabad to attend meetings of the newly constituted Congress Working Committee on September 16 and 17 and will return to Delhi late Sunday night.

“It will not be feasible for me to attend the function scheduled for tomorrow morning,” Kharge said.

The new Parliament building, built adjacent to the existing one, was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 28. (ANI)

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