Parliament: India (general issues) - Revision history

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Jyoti: /* Security infrastructure */

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Jyoti at 09:36, 4 January 2024

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Jyoti: /* Parliamentary standing committees */

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‎Parliamentary standing committees

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Jyoti: /* Parliament House */

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  The Rajya Sabha also passed the Telecommunications Bill that permits the government to temporarily take control of telecom services in the interest of national security. Overall, LS passed 18 bills in the session & logged 74% productivity. TNN
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+[https://epaper.indiatimes.com/article-share?article=22_08_2025_012_020_cap_TOI  Subodh Ghildiyal, August 22, 2025: ''The Times of India'']
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+New Delhi : Monsoon session of Parliament ended Thursday the way it began on July 21 — with opposition MPs in the well, adjournments, and washout of proceedings. The month-long parliamentary session was dominated by controversies about Bihar electoral rolls review and Pahalgam terror attack, with INDIA bloc on the offensive.
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+When Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla tried to conduct the proceedings on Thursday, reminding the protesting members that it was the last day of the session, his pleas were met with barbs from a few members about a discussion on SIR still being possible on the last day.
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 New Delhi : The December 13 security breach in Lok Sabha, which led to the suspension of eight Delhi Police personnel and resulted in a high-level inquiry and review of security systems in Parliament, has put the spotlight on the state of the Parliament Security Service (PSS), the specialised cadre not only responsible for maintaining access control into the Parliament Estate, but which is also tasked with all coordination relating to the protection of Parliament’s VVIP members. Severely hamstrung by staff shortages and its reliance on outdated technology for carrying out its designated security functions, the PSS, TOI has learnt, suffers from massive gaps in sanctioned strength and actual postings. As per information accessed by TOI, the most glaring staff shortages exist at entry level security posts among personnel deployed at the outer peripheral gates, who serve as the first level of filters for vehicles, men and material entering Parliament. Against the sanctioned strength of 72 Security Assistant Grade II officers for Lok Sabha, the current strength is 10, accounting for less than 15% deployment. Shortage of staff among entry level technical staff — Security Assistant Grade II (Tech) — is equally dismal at 39 against a sanctioned strength of 99. Lok Sabha’s second ring of security personnel, deployed at the Parliament House gates, also faces a staff crunch with only 24 personnel deployed against the sanctioned strength of 69. What’s more, the post of joint secretary (security), under whose operational command PSS works in both Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha secretariats, has also remained vacant since earlier this year. A day after the security breach, the Centre sent out directives to the chief secretaries of all states to send nominations for the post in the Lok Sabha Secretariat. Though the security breach put the spotlight on the prevailing security cordon in Lok Sabha, the Rajya Sabha fares little better. All seven Security Assistant Grade-I (Technical) posts in Rajya Sabha are currently lying vacant, while only 26 Security Assistant Grade II personnel in Rajya Sabha are deployed on the outer peripheries against a sanctioned strength of 60. Officials TOI spoke to said the massive gaps in deployment have a critical impact on Parliament security since PSS is not only tasked with assisting Members of Parliament wherever needed, but are also responsible for liaising with Delhi Police and the armed Parliament Duty Group (PDG) drawn from the CRPF to guard the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha chamber, galleries, Central Hall and other areas of Parliament House and Parliament House Annexe. The specialist cadre’s range of supervisory duties extend to ensuring thorough anti-sabotage and anti-explosive checks of all vital areas of Parliament House and Parliament House Annexe, fire and sanitation services as well as supervising the functioning of Centralised Pass Issue Cell (CPIC) that facilitates entry of all visitors into Parliament. It however is also hamstrung by a largely manual frisking protocol, which the December 13 breach proved was inadequate in detecting a plastic smoke canister the intruders snuck into Parliament in their shoes. Officials also pointed out that the new Parliament House has been receiving an unprecedented number of visitors which the security cordon was not equipped to handle. “Though visitor entry has been stopped since the security breach, visitor entry needs to be streamlined keeping in mind the ability of the prevailing security cordons to handle crowds,” an official said on condition of anynomity. During the special session of Parliament in September, when the two Houses passed the women’s reservation bill, over 6,000 visitors entered Parliament House each day.
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-=== Monsoon: session ends four days early===
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 Parliament was adjourned sine die six days before the winter session was to end. The Rajya Sabha’s productivity in the session was 102%, chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar said. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said productivity of the House was 97% during 13 sittings that saw the passage of seven bills, including the Maritime Anti-Piracy Bill.
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+[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/6-major-legislations-get-parliament-approval-as-winter-session-ends/articleshow/106195224.cms  Dec 22, 2023: ''The Times of India'']
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 ===2020: budget session===
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 But Naidu expressed disappointment that 95 (78 from the LS and 23 from the RS) of the 244 members in the eight DRSCs with the Upper House had “zero attendance” this time as compared to only 28 last time.
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-Dhananjay Mahapatra
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-The Supreme Court refused to answer questions raised by expelled MPs Amar Singh, Jaya Prada and Pyari Mohan Mohapatra, leading to revival of its 1996 judgment making elected representatives thrown out of a party amenable to the party whip in a House.
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-The SC had on November 15, 2010 passed an 11-page judgment staying application of its 1996 judgment to Amar Singh and Jaya Prada, who were expelled from Samajwadi Party on January 6, 2010.
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-It had referred the matter to a three-judge bench after framing seven questions for consideration, including whether an expelled MP or MLA would come under the ambit of party whip and whether defiance of such whip would make the elected representative liable to disqualification proceedings under the Tenth Schedule. Expelled from BJD in 2012, Mohapatra had moved the SC and got relief similar to Singh and Jaya Prada.
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-A bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi, Arun Mishra and P C Pant, which had heard detailed arguments on the seven questions and reserved the verdict on February 15, on Wednesday surprised the counsel for the three petitioners by saying, “We are not answering the questions raised in the petitions.“
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-The bench passed a short order saying the term of these elected representatives had ended and the petitions had become infructuous.
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-In comparison, the reference judgment of November 15, 2010 by Justices Altamas Kabir and Cyriac Joseph dealt elaborately with the pleadings and had said, “Pending the refe rence, the decision in G Vishwanathan's case (the 1996 judgment) shall not apply to Amar Singh and Jaya Prada.“
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-With this order, the 1996 judgment will apply to all expelled MPs and MLAs immediately and they will have to adhere to the whip issued by the party on whose ticket they were elected to the House before being expelled.
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-Justices Kabir and Joseph had said, “We are convinced that the decision in G Vishwanathan's case merits another look as far as members of the House who are expelled from their parties on whose banner they had been elected to the House are concerned, as they would be left completely vulnerable to the whims and fancies of the leaders of their parties.“
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