NEW DELHI: On the first day of the Budget session, the Upper House opened with opposition demanding suspension of business to discuss UP govt’s order asking eateries along the along kanwar yatra route to display names of their owners and employees.
Rajya Sabha chairman
Jagdeep Dhankhar
on Monday rejected notices from opposition MPs on grounds that the notices were neither in conformity to requirements of rule 267 nor to directions given by the Chair and so the same are not accepted.
Opposition MPs including Congress and Aam Aadmi Party had given notices under rule 267 seeking suspension of the business of the day to take up discussion on the issue. Dhankhar said he had received notices under rule 267 from seven MPs across different opposition parties.
Earlier, the Rajya Sabha chairman while making his opening remarks at the 265th Session of Rajya Sabha drew attention of the members to what he described as “an important and concerning aspect”.
“Many a time, members’ communications to the chairman find way to public domain and sometimes even before the same reach the addressee. This inappropriate practice of garnering public attention is at best avoided.”
He urged all members to uphold the principles of ‘dialogue, discussion, deliberation, and debate’, fostering an environment conducive to robust parliamentary discourse and set an example before the nation.
