Budget Session Updates: PM Modi's reply to Motion of Thanks to President's Address in Lok Sabha.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his reply to the Motion of Thanks to the President's Address, launched a sharp attack at the Opposition and the INDIA bloc in his last Parliament speech ahead of the national elections scheduled for this year. "The Congress' shop on verge of closure in its attempt to launch same product again and again," he said in a swipe at Rahul Gandhi.
"The alignment of alliance is ruined, PM Modi's swipe at INDIA bloc," PM Modi said about the INDIA bloc
President Droupadi Murmu had addressed the joint sitting of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on January 31, the first day of the Budget Session.
Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party has issued a three-line whip to all its MPs in Lok Sabha to be present in the Lower House on the fourth day of the ongoing Budget Session.
The last session before Lok Sabha polls expected to be held in April-May this year will be spread over eight sittings spread over a period of 10 days and may conclude on February 9.
Here are the Highlights on the Parliament's Budget Session:
Lok Sabha adopts motion of thanks on President's Address Lok Sabha on Monday adopted the motion of thanks on the President's address after the reply from Prime Minister Narendra Modi who lambasted the opposition parties and outlined the achievements of the government.
The motion was adopted by a voice vote. Over 60 members took part in the debate on the motion of thanks which commenced on Friday.
The budget session of parliament began on January 31 and is the last before Lok Sabha elections expected in April-May. The session began with the address of President Droupadi Murmu to the joint sitting of the two Houses.
I want you to support me to make the lives of the citizens of the country prosperous but if you don't do that and just throw bricks at me then I will use that brick to build a developed India, says PM Modi.
Agencies are taking action against corruption and there's outrage over it. Ten years ago in our parliament, there were discussions on scams and house used to demand action every time. Today, when action is being taken against the corrupt then some people oppose that. During their time, agencies were political tools, says PM Modi
We have used all that money for the cause of poor and marginalised, says PM Modi
PM Modi on raids
People who have looted from the country will have to return the money. Adhir Ranjan ji here has seen the heaps of cash being seized from his state, says PM Modi
In 1974, during emergency, inflation was at 30%. 2 songs were superhit on inflation - 'mehngai maar gayi and mehngai dayan khaaye jaye'. UPA's argument was very insensitive. They said if you can eat fancy ice cream then don't cry over inflation, says PM/
Our government has always kept inflation regulated. Despite two ongoing wars and the pandemic, the inflation has been regulated, says PM Modi
Employment opportunities that are available for youth today were not there earlier, says PM Modi
History is a witness to it that whenever Congress comes, it becomes inflation with it, says PM Modi
Startups, digital creators, unicorns, gig economy - these are the new vocabulary of the new Bharat. Today, India is a leading digital economy, says PM Modi
PM Modi On Green Energy
In the energy sector, we have always been dependent. We are working towards to green energy to become atmanirbhar. We also want to take lead in semiconductor, says PM Modi
Before 2014, infra budget was Rs 12 lakh crore. In the last ten years, it has been increased to 44 lakh crore. Imagine the kind of jobs it must have generated, says PM Modi
During the UPA Government, an extra-constitutional body was formed. The government could not have its way before that body. National Advisory Council - did it have any OBC members? Find out...says PM Modi
When so many planes will be operated, imagine how many pilots, crew and people in ground services we would need. The aviation has emerged as a big opportunity for our country, says PM Modi
The sector has the biggest opportunity to generate jobs, says PM Modi
In the last 10 years, there has been a big boom in the tourism sector, says PM Modi
In the coming days, the digital India movement will bring many job opportunities for our country's youth, says PM Modi.
PM Praises Nari Shakti
PM Modi in Parliament praises 'Nari Shakti', says, "From space to Olympics, Sashastra Bal to Sansad, the country has seen the empowerment of women."
"They keep talking about the OBC community but I am surprised that they can't see the biggest OBC," says PM Modi while pointing at himself.
PM Modi Says Congress Didn't Do Justice To OBC Community
Congress didn't do any justice to the OBC community. They humiliated their leaders. When Karpoori Thakur was awarded the Bharat Ratna. But remember, how he was treated. When he became the Chief Minister, conspiracies were hatched to remove him from the post, says PM Modi.
Khadi was forgotten by the Congress but our government highlighted its importance, says PM Modi
If the poor of the country gets the resources, they can defeat poverty. And as per this thinking, we gave them resources. Crores of poor now have bank accounts, housing and clean drinking water, says PM Modi.
We scrapped article 370. We passed the Women's Reservation Bill. We removed laws from the colonial era and moved to Nyay Sanhita. We've removed many obsolete laws, says PM Modi
PM Modi Reiterates 'Ab ki baar, 400 Paar' slogan
PM Modi reiterates 'ab ki baar, 400 paar' slogan while mocking Mallikarjun Kharge over a gaffe in the Parliament recently.
Lord Ram not only returned to his home but a temple was built which gave a new energy to the country. BJP's third government is not far, says PM Modi
PM Modi slams INDIA Bloc
This was the thinking of the "Royal Family of Congress" about Indians. The alignment of the alliance has shaken. If they can't trust each other, how will they trust the people, says PM Modi
The alignment of alliance has ruined, PM Modi's swipe at INDIA bloc.
The Congress always considered themselves as rulers and belittled people. Nehru said in his speech - 'In India, there's no habit of working hard compared to Europeans, Americans'. This shows Nehru belittled people and did not trust the potential of people., says PM Modi.
PM Mentions Nehru's Red Fort Speech
PM Modi mentioned former Prime Minister Nehru's Red Fort speech and said, "Congress never trusted India's potential"
PM Modi In Parliament
Our goals are big and the world is seeing that. No one can beat Congress's slow pace. The pace at which work is progressing in India, Congress can't even imagine that. We built four crore houses for poor and for the urban poor, 80 lakh pakka houses. It would've taken 100 years to get this work done at Congress's slow pace, says PM Modi
It won't take 30 years, this is Modi's guarantee. I feel pity for the opposition. If you were happy with number 11, then you should be happy with no. 5 too, said PM Modi.
In February 2014, when th Interim Budget came, the then Finance Minister said and I quote, "I now wish to look forward and outline a vision for the future...I wonder how many...that India's economy in terms of size and strength is the 11th largest economy. There are great things in store. There is a view that in the next 3 decades, India's nominal GDP will take the country to the 3rd rank after US and China." In 2014, they said by 2044 India will be the 3rd largest economy. That was their vision, says PM Modi.
The world is influenced by India. G20 summit is a testament to this. In our third term...India will be 3rd largest economy in the world and this is Modi's Guarantee. When we say that we'll become the 3rd largest economy, the opposition says it will happen on its own, nothing big. I want to tell the youth how its done and what is the govt. role in this, says PM Modi
When we emerged as the fifth-largest economy in the world, the opposition gives a bizarre logic that 'what's big in this. This happens on its own', PM Modi's continued attack on the Opposition
A cancel culture has developed. The Congress is stuck in that. If we say Make-In-India, Congress says cancel, we say Vande Bharat, they say cancel culture, says PM Modi, adding, "Because of this you have cancelled the country's progress".
PM Modi's swipe at Rahul Gandhi
They are trying to launch one product again and again, said PM Modi in a veiled dig at Rahul Gandhi.
"Look at their (Congress) situation. Kharge had to move the House and Ghulam Nabi Azad had to leave the party," says PM Modi.
The Congress is responsible for the Opposition's sorry state today, said PM Modi
PM Modi's sharp reply to Opposition MP
PM Modi reacted angrily when an opposition member said that the President's speech didn't have any mention of minorities. "I think according to you women, farmers are not minority. Till when will you keep dividing the society," he asked.
I can see many people in the opposition have lost hope, strength to even fight elections. I've heard that many want to go to RS instead of Lok Sabha, they are figuring things out. The President's address is in a way based on facts, truth and is a big proof of reality that is presented in front of people, says PM Modi.
After the next elections, you will seen in the audience panel, says PM Modi.
PM Modi slams Opposition
After hearing the Opposition speech, I can say that it's clear that they will sit there for more time to come, says PM Modi.
PM Modi on Presiden't speech
In the new parliament, when the President came to address the house, the Sengol was leading the ceremony and we were behind it. This new tradition increases the value of Indian culture.
PM Modi's big Parliament speech
PM Modi is replying to President's address
Opposition leaders being hounded by central agencies: Trinamool Congress MPTrinamool Congress MP Sukhendu Sekhar Ray on Monday alleged that leaders of states ruled by non-NDA parties are being hounded by the central agencies and said his party chief Mamata Banerjee has written to the Committee on 'One Nation One Election' headed by former president Ram Nath Kovind vehemently opposing the concept.
Participating in the debate in the Motion of Thanks on the president's address in Rajya Sabha, Mr Ray informed the West Bengal chief minister is also coming to attend the meeting on 'One Nation One Election' on Tuesday and said "nothing will be accepted by our state at least on this issue".
He accused the BJP-led central government of resorting to "fiscal terrorism" in West Bengal, claiming that 156 central teams were sent to the state to look into the implementation of centrally sponsored schemes.
Several monuments, archaeological sites under encroachment: Government tells Parliament
A number of old monuments and archaeological sites in the country are "under encroachment", the government informed the Lok Sabha on Monday. Union Minister of Culture G Kishan Reddy said this in a written response to a query in the Lok Sabha.
He was asked about the centrally protected monuments and whether any study has been done to assess their present conditions.
There are 3,697 ancient monuments and archaeological sites and remains which have been declared of national importance, Reddy said.
"Inspection of monuments and sites is taken up by the Archeological Survey of India's officials/officers from time to time to assess their condition," he said.
Parliament's Budget Session Live Updates
The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Amendment Bill, 2024 introduced in Rajya Sabha
Budget Session of Parliament update: Claims Centre Not Releasing Funds To Some States 'Politically-Vitiated Narrative', Says Nirmala SitharamanUnion Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday came down heavily on allegations that the Centre is withholding funds meant for non-BJP governed states, saying it is a "politically-vitiated narrative" that "vested interests" are happy to go about saying.
Replying to a question by Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury in the Lok Sabha on the Karnataka government's claim that the Centre is not releasing funds due to it, Ms Sitharaman said such a situation cannot happen as the "system is well placed" and the central government works according to recommendations of the Finance Commission.
"This apprehension that some states are being discriminated against is a politically-vitiated narrative which, I am sorry to say, vested interests are happy to go about saying," she said during Question Hour.
Ms Sitharaman added that no Union finance minister can play with the Finance Commission's recommendations.
"This is just not a possibility that any finance minister can intervene to say that 'I don't like this state, stop payment'. No way. It can't happen that way. The system is well placed," she said.
Budget Session update Union Home Minister Amit Shah arrives at the Parliament.
Budget Session of Parliament updateUnion Minister Bhupendra Yadav is to introduce the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Amendment Bill, 2024 Bill in the Rajya Sabha today to amend the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974.
Budget Session Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is to lay on the Table, a statement (in English and Hindi) showing the Supplementary Demands for Grants in respect of Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir (with Legislature) for the year 2023-24 in the Rajya Sabha today.
Parliament's Budget Session Live UpdatesUnion Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is to lay in the Rajya Sabha today -Statements (in English and Hindi) of the estimated receipts and expenditure (2024-25) of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir (with Legislature) and Statement under Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2006 (in English and Hindi).
Budget Session | Congress MP Manish Tewari given adjournment motion notice in Lok Sabha to discuss India-China border situation
Congress MP Manickam Tagore gives an Adjournment Motion notice in Lok Sabha demanding immediate appointment of 1.5 lakh youth selected for Army, Air Force and Navy between 2019 and 2022 and for the reinstatement of the Old Recruitment System.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi to reply to the Motion of Thanks to the President's Address in Lok Sabha tentatively at 5 pm today.
List of Business
Lok Sabha
- MPs Ravneet Singh and Ramshiromani Verma will lay on the table the minutes of the twelfth sitting of the Committee on Absence of Members from the sittings of the House held on December 14, 2023.
- MPs PP Chaudhary and NK Premachandran will present the 28th report of the Committee on External Affairs (Seventeenth Lok Sabha) on the subject 'Countering Global Terrorism at Regional and International Levels'.
- BJP MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar will make a statement regarding the status of implementation of the recommendations contained in the 49th Report of the Standing Committee on Labour, Textiles and Skill Development on 'Functioning of Directorate General of Training' pertaining to the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
- Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present a statement (Hindi and English versions) of estimated receipts and expenditure of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir for the year 2024-25.
Rajya Sabha
- While the discussion over the Motion of Thanks on the President's address is to resume, MPs Ashok Kumar Mittal and Prakash Javadekar will lay on the table, a copy (in English and Hindi) of the Twenty Eighth Report of the Department-Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs (Seventeenth Lok Sabha) on 'Countering Global Terrorism at Regional and International Levels' in the House today.
- Union Minister Bhupendra Yadav will introduce the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution)
- Amendment Bill, 2024 Bill in the Rajya Sabha today to amend the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974.
- PM Modi is scheduled to reply to the Motion of Thanks to the President's Address in Lok Sabha.
- President Droupadi Murmu had addressed the joint sitting of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on January 31, the first day of the Budget Session.
- Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party has issued a three-line whip to all its MPs in Lok Sabha to be present in the Lower House on the fourth day of the ongoing Budget Session.