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Jul 20, 2022, 12 tweets

Day 3 of #MonsoonSession starts
MPs in #LokSabha protest in a new way today!
Some of them are carrying milk / curd packets in the House (see video below)!
Speaker asks everyone to let Q Hour run, during Zero Hour, he will let MPs raise their issues
Protests continue
#SansadWatch

Amid protests, Q hour proceeds.
A Q on godowns in Chhattisgarh is discussed
MoS Food, Public Distribution, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, claims that storage facilities work, no grain wasted or destroyed after 2014.
An MP asks that grain destroyed during transportation, look into this...

Minister again repeats - enough capacity, nothing getting destroyed! Under PM Garib Kalyan Yojana, 80 crore people provided free ration. Then says that she can give figures pre 2014 of wastage, now no destruction, except due to rain etc.
Several MPs ask stats for their states.

As Speaker tries to pacify protesting MPs, they continue raising slogans & placards.
Parl Affairs Minister Prahlad Joshi also intervenes, claims Opposition not interested in debate.
As protests continue, House adjourned till 2pm after running for 15 mins.
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In #RajyaSabha, Nominated Member PT Usha takes oath.
After this, papers, reports are tabled.
Public Accounts Committee tables report:
• assessment of assesses in entertainment sector (DT)
• construction and utilization of limited height subway (LHS)
#SansadWatch

After this, Chair adds two more MPs to the panel of Chairpersons
The Leader of Opposition, Mallikarjun Kharge is called to speak. He says that he has moved 267 notice (adjournment) to discuss #pricerise, #inflation, common person suffering
Chair intervenes, some disruption

Chair says in Business Advisory Committee it was proposed that discussion be kept on #Pricerise, he has agreed. So debate will likely happen.
But as MPs protest, demand discussion right away, Chair swiftly adjourns House till 2pm after running it for 6 mins!
#SansadWatch

Both Houses resume
As papers are being tabled in #LokSabha, MPs continue their protests
Slogans and placards being raised.
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#RajyaSabha resumes at 2, adjourns for the day at 2.05
No business conducted
A Bill was listed for discussion, but MPs were protesting #pricerise #GSThike
Deputy Chair asked some MPs to not take pics, videos
P Wilson, DMK called to speak on Bill, request House to be put in order

Deputy Chair asks him to speak on Bill, he requests order in House!
Then Deputy Chair moves to next MP.
Protests continue.
Slogans of 'Hosh mein aao, Hosh mein aao' can be heard.
House swiftly adjourned.
#SansadWatch

#LokSabha adjourns till 4pm
Before adjournment, some MPs raised issues of urgent public importance:
- poor implementation of Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana
- Funding sports, making stadiums in rural areas
- Ayushman Bharat not reaching village hospitals
#SansadWatch

#LokSabha resumed at 4, adjourned for the day at 4.07pm
And Day 3 of #MonsoonSession of #Parliament also concluded with no business being conducted.
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