Congress' Anand Sharma when asked how many Congress MPs were absent during the voting in Rajya Sabha on #CitizenshipBill : ask Nitish Kumar and JD(U), few years ago he was sending DNA of Biharis to the Prime Minister."
The Bill was passer by 125 votes, 105 votes against.
The Bill was passer by 125 votes, 105 votes against.
After giving a passionate speech that "Assam cannot accept burden of extra people" and that they should be distributed to other parts of the country, Asom Gana Parishad's Birendra Prasad Baishya voted in favour of #CitizenshipBill in Rajya Sabha
Shiv Sena's Sanjay Raut walked up to the seat of BJP's Jagat Prakash Nadda, shook hands and then walked out of the Rajya Sabha, minutes before voting began on #CitizenshipBill . Shiv sena was absent, they voted in favour of the Bill in Lok sabha
NCP's Vandana Chavan and Majeed Memon were absent during voting on the #CitizenshipBill in Rajya Sabha.
BJP MP CM Ramesh(former TDP),BJP's floor manager in RS.He moved around,exchanging glances and nods with AIADMK,PMK/other parties.He scribbled the nos on a paper, passed it to Piyush Goyal who showed the final tally to Amit shah.Shah looked at the paper for a second,kept it aside.
There was a moment when Amit Shah coughed during the course of discussion, Piyush Goyal and MoS Nityanand Rai gestured and waved at the parliament staff (standing at the rear) to get water for him immediately. A half full glass water was already there on Shah's desk.
In the middle of voting, parliamentary affairs ministers Prahlad Patel and V Muraleedharan skipped a heartbeat when they saw M Venkaiah Naidu taking a break. They sprinted till the steps of the dais(chairman's seat), only to be told by the staff that he will be back!
When Kapil Sibal sought to know from Amit Shah on what text books he read to erroneously blame Congress party for the partition on religious lines, someone shouted : "entire political science".
After the #CitizenshipBill was passed, a senior BJP leader from Assam remarked that they had anticipated the protests and it was expected that the protests would continue for at least a month.
Sikkim's Hishey Lachungpa spoke against the #CitizenshipBill in Rajya Sabha but voted in favour of the Bill.
