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Mitron, #LokSabha just passed the 500+ clause #IncomeTaxBill WITHOUT any debate, within JUST 3 MINUTES 👏👏 (Must see video👇) But it didn't stop at that! Immediately after that, the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2025 was also passed WITHOUT any debate, in next 1 MINUTE 👏👏 Oh, and before we forget to mention, both these Bills were introduced today itself, just 2 hours before being passed. They were added to the agenda of House through a supplementary list🤭 So, anyway, no MP would have gotten a chance to read the loooong bills, so they did away with debate altogether. Very convenient, no? During this, in background there were protests on #SIR, #VoteChori and chants of "Loktantra ki hatya bandh karo" (stop murdering #democracy), "Shame, Shame!" could be heard! But even this wasn't enough! Earlier at 2pm, National #Sports Governance Bill, 2025 + National Anti-Doping (Amendment) Bill, 2025 were passed within JUST 34 minutes👏👏 - Combined these Bills have 45+ clauses - Only 2 MPs spoke on the Bill - Minister alone spoke for ~14 mins - Voting went on for ~7 mins - Protests were going on in background - Opposition MPs had moved amendments, which were summarily dismissed as they were either protesting or not in House (can't be sure as Sansad TV doesn't show opposition MPs) Isn't #Parliament so efficient and productive today?
Maadhyam381,587 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten
Tejasvi Surya just referred to women reservation as 'encroachment'! Unbelievably sick, but true (see video). He is arguing why seats need to increase to 'accommodate' women reservation. Giving example of #Kerala, he says that if after Census of 2027, delimitation happens on basis of 2027 Census, Kerala seats will come down from 20 to 14, if the total number of seats remain at 550. But then, he says that of these 14, 1/3rd will need to be reserved for women. MPs like K.C. Venugopal will lose their seat and the very clearly says that, "Narendra Modi government's proposal is to not only protect existing seats from 'encroachment' but also to ensure that Kerala doesn't lose out'. Women reservation is not encroachment, it is a constitutional imperative, a right. But well, it's expected of men to feel threatened every time women demand what is their due. But glad that Surya made it amply clear that all these Bills are really not about women, it's just about consolidating power! #womenreservation #delimitation
Maadhyam25,982 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
In an interesting exchange in #LokSabha today, DMK MP TR Baalu while speaking on an issue referred to a High Court judge as 'RSS' judge. Kiren Rijiju immediately objected saying it's unparliamentary & casting aspersion on judiciary👇 So, everyone agrees that '#RSS' is an unparliamentary word and associating anyone with RSS amounts to casting aspersion on them? The Chair later said that any judge cannot be labelled like that in any form. Baalu clarified that the judge himself has considered that he belongs to a particular....(inaudible). #WinterSession
Maadhyam60,154 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
It must come on record that despite widespread protests & repeated demand from Opposition to send #TransgenderBill to a #Parliament Committee, Govt insisted on pushing it through by making unsubstantiated claims! See video👇 First, it's rare that debate on one Bill is stopped to take up another Bill. The debate on #Finance Bill was going on and Transgender Bill was listed AFTER it, but Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju asked for the Transgender Bill to be taken up & 'passed' today and for Finance Minister to reply to debate on Finance Bill tomorrow. It is only when a Minister is not available to respond to debate on a Bill, that it is postponed, but Finance Minister is sitting right there! What is the rush to pass #TransBill in #LokSabha today itself? Second, as Rijiju seeks sense of the House, several MPs from the Opposition, in fact, oppose and categorically demand that Bill be sent to a Select Committee to consult with stakeholders from Trans community. They even say that they raised this demand in Business Advisory Committee meeting as well and Rijiju concedes to this. Rijiju himself says that Congress, SP, AITC and NCP(SP) made a request for Bill to be sent to Committee. And then Rijiju makes several unsubstantiated claims: 1. It's not a major amendment Bill - amendments to exclude self-identification are not major? 2. Extensive debate have already happened on Bill - When? The Bill was never placed in public domain as Pre-Legislative Consultation Policy 2014 mandates. Where has this debate happened? Who participated in it? 3. The amendment has come after a year long debate in Standing Committee - When? Which Committee? In the last 1 year, the Standing Committee on Social Justice & Empowerment has not produced any specific report on any topic related to #Transgender persons. Even the Statement of Objects & Reasons of the Bill doesn't mention any recommendation from a Standing Committee report. 4. We are not going against any community - why are people from trans community protesting the Bill then? So, if the Bill is very good, very important, for the welfare of people from Transgender community, then why is the Govt not willing to send the Bill to a Committee? Rijiju keeps saying - Bill has to be passed today, let's not delay. An MP can be heard in the background asking - "itni jaldi kya hai"? Indeed, why the rush? Why does Govt keep taking short cuts for law making and avoid public consultations?
Maadhyam31,237 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
Seven years too late, but it's great to see the issue of 'missing' Deputy Speaker in #LokSabha finally being debated in House! As MP Mohd. Jawed moved the resolution to remove Om Birla as Speaker of #LokSabha, MP Asaduddin Owaisi (Asaduddin Owaisi) raises a very fundamental point - when such a motion has been moved against the Speaker, who has the authority to preside? There is no Deputy Speaker in House & no sense of the House was taken to determine if Jagdambika Pal (who is in the Chair) can preside in terms of Article 95(2) (see video) MP Nishikant Dubey interprets Article 95(2) to say that House has determined as per rules and procedure that Jagdambika Pal. Then, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju jumps in and says that the point is unnecessary, already a ruling has been given. However, it can be argued that Article 95(2) should have no application here, because it talks about Speaker and Deputy Speaker being 'absent'. Article 95(1) is the appropriate Article to be invoked here which talks about 'vacancy' in office of Speaker and Deputy Speaker. A combined reading of both 95(1) and 95(2) - Speaker is absent but post of Deputy Speaker is vacant - so who should preside? Contd..
Maadhyam22,984 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
![As opposition MPs oppose the introduction of three Bills on constitutional grounds, Speaker says, "mahila aarakshan ke khilaaf hain kya aap?" [Are you against #womenreservation?]. Not that we expect any neutrality and rising above politics from the Speaker anyway, but if anyone had any doubts about the narrative that govt will use to counter opposition - if you oppose delimitation, you are anti-women - then those doubts should be laid to rest!](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2044658502115950867/amplify_video_thumb/2044657275118452736/img/AT9-r7lQqMSUGAac.jpg)
As opposition MPs oppose the introduction of three Bills on constitutional grounds, Speaker says, "mahila aarakshan ke khilaaf hain kya aap?" [Are you against #womenreservation?]. Not that we expect any neutrality and rising above politics from the Speaker anyway, but if anyone had any doubts about the narrative that govt will use to counter opposition - if you oppose delimitation, you are anti-women - then those doubts should be laid to rest!
Maadhyam14,542 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
JUST IN: Govt has lost no time in transmitting #NREGA repeal Bill to #RajyaSabha and will take it up today itself. At 5pm, MPs were told that they have till 5.45pm to submit any amendments (some MPs had proactively submitted amendments already, which is smart!). 8 hours allotted for debate. An MP raised a point of order that in the Business Advisory Committee, no time was allotted for this Bill. It seems that Chair came prepared to respond to this point of order. He immediately rattled out a list of Govt Bills in past which were also brought to House without time being allotted for the same! But this is not 'convention', these are bad and wrong precedents. For these few names of Bills that Chair read out (of which most were from after 2014), thousands of Bills would have been taken up after allocating time in BAC, which is how it should be. BAC is also where Govt and Opposition try to reach some consensus on Bills, sending Bills to Committees etc. Why was this 'convention' not followed? Also, any wrong in the past doesn't justify another wrong now! #Parliament #WinterSession
Maadhyam27,610 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
![Lessons on gaslighting by Speaker👇 Opposition MPs when #NREGA repeal Bill was introduced: Send to standing committee Govt: No, we will debate Opposition MPs during debate: send to Standing Committee Govt: silent Opposition MPs before bill being passed: send to Standing Committee Speaker: now already debated till 1.30am in night! Now, no point. [Only minutes ago, the Finance Minister had moved a motion to send the Securities Market Code to Standing Committee on Finance. Why couldn't the #NREGA repeal bill also go to the Standing Committee? Coz Finance Committee is chaired by a BJP MP and Rural Dev Committee by a INC MP!]](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2001552107883892819/amplify_video_thumb/2001551645113823232/img/8jJfZ5z1Uo73KSaO.jpg)
Lessons on gaslighting by Speaker👇 Opposition MPs when #NREGA repeal Bill was introduced: Send to standing committee Govt: No, we will debate Opposition MPs during debate: send to Standing Committee Govt: silent Opposition MPs before bill being passed: send to Standing Committee Speaker: now already debated till 1.30am in night! Now, no point. [Only minutes ago, the Finance Minister had moved a motion to send the Securities Market Code to Standing Committee on Finance. Why couldn't the #NREGA repeal bill also go to the Standing Committee? Coz Finance Committee is chaired by a BJP MP and Rural Dev Committee by a INC MP!]
Maadhyam23,288 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
Speaking to The Wire, Maansi Verma (MaansiV) Founder, Maadhyam, argues that the only logical (& fundamentally undemocratic) explanation for surprise Bills in #Parliament is to disable not just the Opposition MPs but also the people from meaningfully & constructively opposing a Bill! In this short clip, we explain the pattern. The #NREGA repeal Bill wasn't the first to be brought as a surprise. This is a strategy that Govt has perfected over many sessions. And it likely won't be the last. But are we paying attention to this pattern of hasty legislations? Are we doing enough to register our disagreement with it? We have repeatedly tried to build critical citizen engagement on these issues. What is your opinion on this? You can watch the full video here - Watch, engage, share. Only when #citizens engage, things #change!
Maadhyam15,088 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
Gone in SEVEN minutes! On #OnlineGamingBill2025, the process of law making in #Parliament itself was reduced to a game 👏👏 Showing amazing speed, the #OnlineGamingBill, cleared by cabinet only yesterday, introduced in #LokSabha only hours ago, was just passed by the House, WITHOUT any debate, WITHIN 7 minutes. At 5.02pm, IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnav moved motion to consider and pass the Bill. He spoke for 4 minutes. At 5.06pm, Speaker asked protesting MPs to go back to their seat, to debate Bill. Then he immediately takes up Bill for consideration. On his motion to take up the Bill, a loud 'Nooooooooo' can be heard (see video). He still went ahead and put Bill to clause by clause vote. By 5.09pm, the Bill was passed! NO wasting time on sending bill to committee, debate and deliberation. Only speed, productivity and efficiency 👏👏 #Parliament #MonsoonSession2025
Maadhyam17,029 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten
#Thread on crazy scenes from #RajyaSabha where #OnlineGamingBill2025 was passed WITHOUT any debate, just like in #LokSabha yesterday. See video👇just when a BJP MP starts speaking on the #OnlineGamingBill2025, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Rijiju cuts her to say that, there is disturbance, nothing can be heard (thought that MP was heard quite clearly) let's pass the Bill without any debate! Waah. This was always their plan. And just seconds before he was sermonising Opposition MPs for not cooperating and participating in debate on Bills in #MonsoonSession2025. Later, as a formality Rijiju said that let her speak because she was speaking in support of Bill 🙄 But by then the Bill was already taken up for voting. Before that, Minister Ashwini Vaishnav spoke on the Bill for about 7 minutes and MP Dr. John Brittas moved a motion to refer Bill to a Select Committee. Contd..
Maadhyam12,081 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten
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