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Amid the ongoing turmoil on various issues in the current Parliament sessions, BJP has issued a whip for both the houses asking the legislators to be present on Monday and Tuesday in the House. 

The party has been working overtime to ensure that the support it had received from sections of Dalits and Other Backward Classes in the 2014 elections remains by and large intact in 2019, despite the reverses it suffered during several bypolls in states like Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.

Minister of social justice and empowerment minister Thaawar Chand Gehlot is expected to move the Bill further, to amend the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, be taken into consideration.

The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Bill, 2018 is expected to be introduced in the session. 

BJP President Amit Shah is scheduled to initiate a debate on recent hike in MSP of Kharif crops in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. 

The other bills that seek consideration and clearance The National Commission for Backward Classes (Repeal) Bill, 2017, The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2018 and The Homeopathy Central Council (Amendment) Bill, 2018
 

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LS proceedings were today adjourned briefly as Congress and other Opposition members created a ruckus over the alleged sexual exploitation of girls at a shelter home in Muzaffarpur. 

Members of the Congress and the RJD staged a walkout with Mallikarjun Kharge alleging suppression of evidence and seeking Home Minister Rajnath Singh's reply on the issue. 
The Lok Sabha today paid homage to victims of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which wreaked havoc of unimaginable dimensions in Japan in 1945.

In the obituary references Speaker Sumitra Mahajan said, "Today, even after 73 years, the innocent residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki continue to suffer from the dreadful after effects of nuclear radiations." 
The House also stood in silence for some time in memory of victims of the two bombings in Japan. 

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