After a tremendous uproar on Monday, both houses of Parliament were once again normal work. The Lok Sabha passed the Finance Bill 2025. All the amendments of opposition MPs fell during the voting. The bill implements the financial proposals of the Central Government for the financial year 2025-2026. Along with this, the Lok Sabha discussed the Boylers Bill 2024 passed by the Rajya Sabha. Parliament approved the Boiler Bill, 2024. The Rajya Sabha discussed the Disaster Management (Amendment) Bill 2024 which was introduced by Amit Shah. The Congress MP raised the issue of Justice Verma in the Lok Sabha, demanded a discussion.
Lok Sabha proceedings
While rejecting the opposition’s allegations of discrimination against some states in providing financial assistance in disaster management, Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday claimed in the Rajya Sabha that in the last ten years, India has emerged as a national and global force not only in terms of disaster management and the world is also accepting it. In the Upper House, Shah responded to the discussion on the Disaster Management (Amendment) Bill and said that there is no question of centralization of power in it. He said that this bill has emphasized not only to adopt reactive attitude, but also to adopt an innovative effort and adopt the involvement attitude of all.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday dismissed the allegations of several members of the Opposition related to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in the Lok Sabha, saying it is completely baseless that GST is not progressive. Responding to the discussion on the Finance Bill, 2025, he also said that investment has increased due to corporate tax cuts. Following his reply, the House approved the Finance Bill by voice. Sitharaman said in the Lok Sabha that the new Income Tax Bill can be brought for discussion in the upcoming monsoon session of Parliament.
The government said on Tuesday that India is the largest producing country of milk in the world and has targeted milk production in the next five years to Rs 23.9 lakh metric tonnes to 30 million metrics. Union Animal Husbandry and Dairy Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh Singh Nelok Sabha also said that since the Modi government started the National Gokul Mission (RGM) in 2014, the milk production in the country has increased by 63.5 percent and the government is expected to increase by 15 percent in the next three years.
Congress MP Manikam Tagore on Tuesday gave notice of breach of privilege against him in Lok Sabha, accusing Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju of misunderstanding and misleading the House. In the notice given to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Tagore alleged that Rijiju on Monday misled the House over the alleged statement of Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivkumar in the lower house.
Senior Trinamool Congress leader Saugat Roy on Tuesday urged the government in the Lok Sabha to withdraw the Waqf (Amendment) Bill as there is a lot of resentment in the Muslim community. He raised this subject during Zero Hour in the House. During this time, Jagadambika Pal was present on the posture who presided over the Joint Committee of Parliament considering the Waqf (Amendment) Bill.
Amid controversy over the remarks of a standup comedian Kunal Kamra’s comment on Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Shiv Sena MP Dahirsheel Mane demanded in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday that such comedy forums that spread hatred and stress in the society should be banned. Mane said that some people are running their political agenda through these standup comedians.
Rajya Sabha proceedings
In the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar expressed confidence that the world guru will be India. During the Zero Hour, Raghav Chadha of Aam Aadmi Party raised the issue of artificial intelligence i.e. artificial intelligence in the upper house. He said that India’s large population is part of AI’s workforce, yet it is not able to make the progress he should have made in this area.
Fauzia Khan, a member of the Nationalist Congress Party (SSP) in the Rajya Sabha, on Tuesday advocated better workplace facilities including institutional reforms and crches to resolve the challenges faced by women working in security forces.
Referring to natural disasters in the country, especially in coastal states due to the ill effects of climate change, R Girirajan of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on Tuesday demanded to create a separate ministry to deal with such disasters and set a separate budget for the ministry. During the discussion in the Upper House in the Disaster Management (Amendment) Bill 2024, Neeraj Dangi of the Congress described the bill as half-incomplete and said that it has tried to reduce the rights of the states in a way, while Ritavrata Banerjee of the Trinamool Congress demanded to send this amendment bill to the Permanent Parliamentary Committee of Home Affairs.
Sagarika Ghosh, a member of the Trinamool Congress in the Rajya Sabha, said on Tuesday that an independent “media industry body”, who maintains the global standards of professional broadcasting and fairness in India, is immediately needed. Sagarika Ghosh, a journalist -turned -politician during the Zero Hour in the Rajya Sabha, also said that the national broadcaster Doordarshan should be made “actually world class” to showcase India’s “Vivek Democracy” inherent in diversity and pluralism “. Sagarika Ghosh, deputy leader of the Trinamool Congress in the Rajya Sabha, said, “Today, an independent media industry body, which maintains the global standards of professional broadcasting and fairness of journalism, is immediate need of the body.”
