1. PM Modi to address Motion of Thanks in Lok Sabha today.
2. President Murmu’s joint address initiated the Budget Session.
3. BJP issues whip, instructing Lok Sabha MPs to be present.
New Delhi, Feb 05: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is slated to respond to the Motion of Thanks to the President’s Address in the Lok Sabha today. The President, Droupadi Murmu, delivered the joint address to the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on January 31, marking the commencement of the Budget Session.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has issued a whip, directing all its Lok Sabha MPs to be present in the Lower House on the fourth day of the ongoing Budget Session.
As part of the proceedings, Lok Sabha MPs Ravneet Singh and Ramshiromani Verma will submit the minutes of the twelfth sitting of the Committee on Absence of Members from the House sittings, held on December 14, 2023.
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MPs PP Chaudhary and NK Premachandran are scheduled to 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 progress of the recommendations from the 49th Report of the Standing Committee on Labour, Textiles, and Skill Development. This pertains to the ‘Functioning of Directorate General of Training’ under the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
Concurrently, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is set to present the estimated receipts and expenditure for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir for the fiscal year 2024-25.
In the Rajya Sabha, the discussion on the Motion of Thanks for the President’s address will resume. MPs Ahok Kumar Mittal and Prakash Javadekar will present the Twenty-Eighth Report of the Department-Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs, focusing on ‘Countering Global Terrorism at Regional and International Levels’.
Union Minister Bhupendra Yadav is expected to introduce the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Amendment Bill, 2024, in the Rajya Sabha today. This proposed legislation aims to amend the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, of 1974.
The ongoing Budget Session, the final one before the anticipated Lok Sabha elections in April-May this year, will comprise eight sittings spread across 10 days and is likely to conclude on February 9.
