Budget Session 2022 Highlights: Rajya Sabha on February 2 debated the President's Address to the join session of Parliament delivered on January 31. Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, in his remarks, hit out at the BJP-led Central government for failing to address the problem of unemployment in the country. Kharge, speaking during the debate on President’s Address, said the government should have provided 15 crore jobs, if it kept its two crore-per-year jobs promise made in 2014. “In 2014, you (BJP) promised 2 crore jobs every year. You should have provided 15 crore jobs by now. But how many jobs did you actually provide?” the Congress leader Kharge questioned. The proceedings of the Upper House were adjourned for the day at 3 pm. The House will reconvene at 10 am on February 3. The Budget Session of the Parliament that commenced on January 31 with President Ram Nath Kovind’s address to both the houses. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented Budget 2022-23 on February 1. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is expected to begin the debate on President's Address in Lok Sabha at 4 pm. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to reply on February 8. The session is being held amid the COVID-19 pandemic . The timings of the session of both the houses will be staggered with the Rajya Sabha sitting from 10 am to 3 pm and Lok Sabha from 4 pm to 9 pm. The session will continue till April 8, with a month-long break after the first part culminates on February 11.
Budget Session 2022 LIVE Updates | Won't endorse the remarks : US state deparment spokesperson on Rahul Gandhi's China-Pakistan comment
A day after Congress president Rahul Gandhi said in his Parliament speech that China and Pakistan are closer because of the policies of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the Centre, US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said he “won’t endorse” those remarks. I'll leave it to Pakistanis and PRC to speak to their relationship,” Price said. Speaking during the debate Motion of Thanks on President Ram Nath Kovind's address to Parliament, Gandhi said on February 2 that the government has brought China and Pakistan together.
Budget Session 2022 LIVE Updates | India receives FDI worth USD 54.1 bn during April-November
Total foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows during April-November 2021 stood at USD 54.10 billion, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Som Parkash said the government has put in place a liberal and transparent policy for FDI, wherein most of the sectors are open under the automatic route.To further liberalise and simplify FDI policy for providing the ease of doing business and attract investments, reforms have been undertaken recently across sectors such as coal mining, contract manufacturing, digital media, single-brand retail trading, civil aviation, defence, insurance and telecom, he said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha. "During the current financial year 2021-22 (up to November 2021), FDI inflows worth USD 54.10 billion have been reported in the country," he said.
Budget Session 2022 LIVE Updates | Biggest crime you can do is bring China and Pakistan together: Rahul Gandhi in LS
Do not be under any illusion, do not underestimate the force that is standing in front of you. You have brought Pakistan and China together. This is the single biggest crime that you could commit against the people of India: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi in Lok Sabha.
Budget Session 2022 LIVE Updates | In the intent of keeping China and Pakistan separate, India's foreign policy has actually got them together, comments Rahul Gandhi in LS
The Chinese have a very clear vision of what they want to do. The single biggest strategic goal of India's foreign policy has been to keep Pakistan and China separate. What you have done is, you have brought them together: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi in Lok Sabha
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Ask yourselves why you are not able to get a guest on Republic Day. Today India is completely isolated & surrounded. We are surrounded in Sri Lanka, Nepal, Burma, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China. Everywhere we are surrounded. Our opponents understand our position: Rahul Gandhi in LS
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You talk of Made in India. But there cannot be Made in India today. The matter has ended because who are the people involved in Made in India? Small and medium industry, unorganised sector - whom you have finished. Made in India is not going to take place: Rahul Gandhi in LS
Budget Session 2022 LIVE Updates | Govt pushed 23 crore people back into poverty: Rahul Gandhi in LS
UPA Govt pulled 27 crore people out of poverty in 10 years. This is not our data, this is factual data. You pushed 23 crore people back into poverty: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi in Lok Sabha .
Budget Session 2022 LIVE Updates | Youth didn't get the employment they were supposed to: Rahul Gandhi in LS
You speak of providing employment, 3 cr youth lost their jobs in 2021. Today India is facing the highest unemployment in 50 yrs. You talk of Made in India, Start-Up India, but the youth didn't get the employment they were supposed to.The one they had has disappeared: Rahul Gandhi
Budget Session 2022 LIVE Updates | Not a single word on unemployment in Presidential Address: Rahul Gandhi in LS
There was not a single word on unemployment in the Presidential Address. The youth across the country is looking for jobs. Your govt is unable to provide them with one: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi in Lok Sabha
Budget Session 2022 LIVE Updates | Gap between 'India for the poor' & 'India for the rich' widening: Rahul Gandhi in LS
And then another India for the poor. The gap between these two Indias is widening: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi in Lok Sabha
Budget Session 2022 LIVE Updates | One India for the extremely rich: Rahul Gandhi in LS
There are two Indias, one India is for the extremely rich people - for those who have immense wealth, immense power, for those who don't need a job, those who don't need water connection,electricity connections, but for those who control the heartbeat of the country: Rahul Gandhi
Budget Session 2022 LIVE Updates | There are now two Indias, no longer one India: Rahul Gandhi in LS
I think there were 3 fundamental things that were not spoken about in the Presidential Address. First, and what I consider to be the most important, is the idea that there are now two Indias. There is now no longer one India: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi in Lok Sabha
Budget Session 2022 LIVE Updates | Presidential Address was a list of bureaucratic ideas, says Rahul Gandhi in LS
To me, it seemed that Presidential Address was a list of bureaucratic ideas instead of a strategic vision. It looked to me as if it has been constructed not by a vision of leadership but by a group of bureaucrats who had to simply put something down on paper: Rahul Gandhi in LS
Budget Session 2022 LIVE Updates | Rahul Gandhi speaks in Lok Sabha, says Presidental Address was a long list of things that the Govt claims to have done but didn't really do
Unfortunately, the Presidental Address was a long list of things that the Govt claims to have done but didn't really contain the deeper strategic issues that we would have liked to see. It didn't touch a couple of central challenges facing our country: Rahul Gandhi in Lok Sabha
Budget Session 2022 LIVE Updates | Question Hour in Lok Sabha is over
Hon'ble Speaker of the House signals the end of the Question Hour.
Budget Session 2022 LIVE Updates | Congress Minister Manish Tewari on SEZs during Question Hour in Lok Sabha
Congress Minister Manish Tewari says that the purchasing power in advanced economy is going to be impacted as a result of withdrawal of fiscal stimulus. He added, the other challenge is structural change in consumption pattern around the world due to COVID-19. Piyush Goyal replied that the changing geo-political scenario presents a new opportunity for India to capture new markets and expand its economic horizons. He says, the PLI scheme is aimed at creating "global champions" and creating FDAs with more countries
Budget Session 2022 LIVE Updates | Commerce and Industries Minister Piyush Goyal says the Congress government didn't invest in the industries manufacturing unit in their time
Answering to Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury's question, Commerce and Industries Minister Piyush Goyal says the Congress government didn't invest in the industries manufacturing unit in their time. Adding to it, he said COVID-19 pandemic has affected all the sectors but through Make in India, the government is aiming to uplift the manufacturing sector..
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Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Khargehad said that Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNERGA) served as a lifeline for workers who lost their jobs during the COVID pandemic.
Budget Session 2022 LIVE Updates | Rajya Sabha adjourned for the day
Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day after debating President's Address on February2. The House will reconvene at 10 am on February 3. Lok Sabha will start proceedings at 4 pm.
Budget Session 2022 LIVE Updates | Why Modi Govt Did Not Go for Populist Measures in Budget 2022?
Given the upcoming Assembly elections in five states, Budget 2022-23 was expected to include a healthy does of strategic welfarism, a hallmark of the Narendra Modi government and a major driver of the BJP’s electoral success in 2019.
Belying assumptions, the thrust is towards infrastructure and capital expenditure, projected to rise by a whopping 35 per cent.
Either the BJP is supremely confident of its prospects in the election-bound states, or the government has conceded that populist measures are unsustainable without increasing the size of the GDP pie. Historically, financial concerns have never interfered with electoral sops, but the Modi government has gone the other way, by reducing food and fertilizer subsidies.
READ : Ahead of Crucial UP Polls, Why Modi Govt Did Not Go for Populist Measures in Budget 2022
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Govtshould have provided 15 crore jobs since 2014 :MallikarjunKharge
Leader of Opposition inRajyaSabha,MallikarjunKharge on February 2 asked the government about the jobs it had promised after coming to power in 2014. "In 2014, you (BJP) promised 2 crore jobs every year. You should have provided 15 crore jobs by now. But how many jobs did you actually provide? This year's Budget promises just 60 lakh jobs in the next 5 years,"Kharge said speaking in Rajya Sabha during the motion of thanks to President's Address.
The Congress leader said that widespread unemployment was prevalent in the country and youths werein distress because big factories wereshutting down.
"Investment is not coming, and the number of govt jobs is shrinking," he said.
Budget Session 2022 LIVE Updates | Issue of irregularities in railway recruitment exam raised in Rajya Sabha
Rajya Sabha members on Wednesday asked the government to examine the allegations of irregularities in the Railways’ Non-Technical Popular Categories (NTPC) and Level 1 exams leading to violence in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh last month. Raising the issue during the Zero Hour in the House, Fauzia Khan of the NCP said recruitment process of the railway examination has exposed the deeper issues of unemployment and a failed education system.
READ: Irregularities in railway recruitment exam raised in Rajya Sabha
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1,41,815 new development projects inLadakhsince 2019The government said in the Parliament that 1,41,815 new development projects in Ladakh and 17556 in J&K have been taken up under various schemes since 2019. The response came from MoS Home Nityanand Rai to a question in Rajya Sabha.
Also, as per J&K government data, 44,684 Kashmiri families are registered with the Office of the Relief and Rehabilitation Commissioner (Migrants), Jammu, comprising of 1,54,712 people, the government said in response to a question on migration of Kashmiri Pandit families from Kashmir due to insurgency since 1990.
Budget Session 2022 LIVE Updates | Democracy is in danger, those who speak truth are labelled anti-national : Mallikarjun Kharge
Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on on February 2hit out at the BJP saying that democracy was in danger in India."Ifsomeone speaks truth he is labeled anti-national. How many times would they ask what we (Congress) did in 70 years?Had we not done anything in 70 years, you would not have been alive. We have democracy, we have constitution. That is why you are alive," Kharge said while speaking during motion of thanks to President's Address in Rajya Sabha.
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439 terrorists killed after Article 370 aborogation inJammuand Kashmir : Govt to Parliament
439 terrorists were killed after the repeal of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir. Also, 98 civilians and109 security personnellost their lives while 541 incidents of terror were reported during this period,Minister of State for Home Nityanand Raisaid in Rajya Sabha
Budget Session 2022 LIVE Updates | 42 outfits designated as terrorist organisations in India : MHA to Rajya Sabha
The number of outfits designated as terrorist organisations in India stands at 42. As many as 31 persons are listed as terrorists under Schedule 4 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (UAPA), Union Home Ministry said in a response to a question inRajya Sabha
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Condemning every man as rapist not advisable : Smriti Irani to a question on marital rape
Union Minister of Women and Child Development Smriti Irani said on February 2 that to condemn every marriage in the country as violent and every man as a rapist is not advisable. "The matter of marital rape is sub-judice. There are over thirty help lines in the country that have assisted women," Irani said in response to a question about marital rape by CPI MP Binoy Viswam during the question hour in Rajya Sabha.
Budget Session 2022 LIVE Updates | Motion of thanks on the President's Address moved in Rajya Sabha
BJP leader Geeta alias Chandraprabha moves in Rajya Sabha the motion of thanks on the President's Address to the joint session of Parliament."That the Members of the Rajya Sabha assembled in this Session are deeply grateful to the President for the Address which he has been pleased to deliver to both Houses of Parliament assembled together on January 31, 2022," the motion reads.
Budget Session 2022 LIVE Updates | FM explained Budget in a timely manner
PM ModiPrime Minister Narendra Modi said on February 2 that Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman comprehensively explained the Budget in a timely manner given its vastness. "I will also try to focus on important aspects of the Budget, today,"The PMsaid this whileaddressing BJP workers.
Budget Session 2022 LIVE Updates | Budget prepared keeping in view assembly elections : Mallikarjun Kharge
Leader of Opposition inRajyaSabha,MallikarjunKharge said that the Budget 2022-23 presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1 is a pro-capitalist Budget that has nothing to offer to farmers, MGNREGA workers, and SC/ST andOBC communities. This Budget has been prepared, keeping in view the ensuing Assembly elections: Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge
Budget Session 2022 LIVE Updates | 14 Bills listed for Budget Session
As many as twenty items have been identified tentatively to be taken up during the Budget Session of Parliament, which commenced on January 31. Of these 14 will be Bills (legislative business) and six financial items. The Bills likely to be taken up in second part of the sessionare :
-The Warehousing (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2022
-The Competition (Amendment) Bill, 2022
-The Cantonment Bill, 2022;
-The Indian Antarctica Bill, 2022
-The Emigration Bill, 2022
-The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (Amendment) Bill, 2022
-The National Dental Commission Bill, 2022
-The Identification of Prisoners Bill, 2022
-The Metro Rail (Construction, Operation and Maintenance) Bill, 2022
-The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2022
-The Energy Conservation (Amendment) Bill, 2022
-The Constitution (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Bills, 2022 relating to UP
-The Constitution (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Bills, 2022 relating to Jharkhand
-The Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Bills, 2022 relating to Tripura.
Budget Session 2022 LIVE Updates | Rajya Sabha proceedings to start from 10 am, Lok Sabha from 4 pm
The Budget Sessionis being held amid the COVID-19 pandemic and henceelaborate arrangements have been made for the safety of the members of Parliament. The timings of the session of both the houses will be staggeredwith the Rajya Sabha sitting from 10 am to 3 pm and Lok Sabha from 4 pm to 9 pm. The session will continue till April 8, with a month-long break in between.
Budget Session 2022 LIVE Updates | Rahul Gandhi to begin debate on motion of thanks to President's address
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is expected to be the first speaker in Lok Sabha in the debate on motion of thanks to the President's joint address in the Lower House on February 2. The government has allotted as many as 12 hours to Opposition parties to respond to the presidential address during the motion of thanks. Congress has been allotted one hour.
READ :Rahul Gandhi to begin debate on motionof thanks to President's address
Budget Session 2022 LIVE Updates | No Legislative Business in first part of Budget Session : Report
The Centre has reportedly told an all-party meeting that it does not intend to bring any legislative business in Rajya Sabha during the first part of the Budget Session which will end on February 11, sources said. The meeting was convened by Rajya Sabha chairman M Venkaiah Naidu through virtual mode to discuss the agenda for the Budget Session that started on January 31. Union minister and Leader of the House Piyush Goyal informed the meeting that since the duration of the first part is small, no legislative business will be brought by the government, the sources said.
Budget Session 2022 LIVE Updates | CPI (M) leader moves suspenion notice in Rajya Sabha on Pegasus
CPI(M) floor leader in Rajya Sabha Elamaram Kareem has given notice under rule 267 to suspend the business and discuss the Pegasus issue amid recent reports revealing Government of India's engagement with Israeli firm NSO and purchase of the spyware.
Budget Session 2022 LIVE Updates | Rahul Gandhi to be first Opposition leader to reply to debate on motion of thanks in Lok Sabha
Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi will be the first leader from the Opposition to reply to the debate on the motion of thanks to the President's address in Lok Sabha today, reported news agency PTI citing sources. The debate on the motion of thanks will start in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha today and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will reply to it. "Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will be the first speaker in the discussion on motion of thanks to the President's address tomorrow," a senior Congress leader said.
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Today is the third day of the Session, which started on January 31. At the beginning of the Session, President Ram Nath Kovind addressed the joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament, in which he said that his government's policies have given top priority to the poor and marginalised sections of the society. He also highlighted the Covid response, record procurement of farm produce and improvement in internal security as "collective achievements" of the billion-plus citizens of the country.
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