{"id":39371,"date":"2024-01-31T12:53:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T07:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=39371"},"modified":"2025-04-24T09:01:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T03:31:21","slug":"budget-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/budget-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget Session begins and suspension of Opposition MPs revoked"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Why in news?<\/li>\n<li>Parliamentary Sessions<\/li>\n<li>Suspension of MPs<\/li>\n<li>Rules under which the Presiding Officer\/Chairman acts<\/li>\n<li>News Summary: Budget Session begins and suspension of Opposition MPs revoked<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why in news?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>On the eve of Parliament\u2019s Budget Session, the suspension of 14 Opposition MPs \u2014 11 from Rajya Sabha and three from Lok Sabha \u2014 was revoked.<\/li>\n<li>This was done to enable them to attend the customary President\u2019s address to both Houses of Parliament.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Parliamentary Sessions<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Constitutional provisions with respect to Parliamentary Sessions\n<ul>\n<li><u>Article 85 of the Indian Constitution states<\/u> that the President can summon each House of Parliament to meet at a time and place of their choosing.<\/li>\n<li>The President can also prorogue, or end, a parliamentary session, or dissolve the Lok Sabha.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Power to convene a session of Parliament\n<ul>\n<li>The <u>Central government has the authority to call for a session<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li>The Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs (CCPA), which includes several Cabinet ministers, determines the date and number of sittings.<\/li>\n<li>After finalising the session schedule, the President calls upon the Members of Parliament to convene for the upcoming session.<\/li>\n<li>The MPs are informed about the number of sittings and other details about the tentative business of the House through the summons sent by the President.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Timetable\n<ul>\n<li>The Constitution doesn\u2019t provide for a fixed number of sessions or days of sitting.<\/li>\n<li>However, <u>three sessions are typically held each calendar year<\/u> \u2014 the Budget, Monsoon, and Winter sessions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Current status\n<ul>\n<li>The longest, the Budget Session, starts towards the end of January, and concludes by the end of April or first week of May.\n<ul>\n<li>This session has a recess so that Parliamentary Committees can discuss the budgetary proposals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The second session is the three-week Monsoon Session, which usually begins in July and finishes in August.<\/li>\n<li>The parliamentary year ends with a three week-long Winter Session, which is held from November to December.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Suspension of MPs<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the role and duty of the Presiding Officer \u2014 Speaker of Lok Sabha and Chairman of Rajya Sabha \u2014 to maintain order so that the House can function smoothly.<\/li>\n<li>In order to ensure that proceedings are conducted in the proper manner, the Speaker\/ Chairman is empowered to force a Member to withdraw from the House.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Rules under which the Presiding Officer\/Chairman acts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>For Lok Sabha\n<ul>\n<li>Rule Number 373 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business\n<ul>\n<li>It empowers presiding officers to direct an MP to withdraw from the House for any disorderly conduct.<\/li>\n<li>This rule says that any Member so ordered to withdraw shall remain absent during the remainder of the day\u2019s sitting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Rules 374 and 374A- To deal with more recalcitrant Members.\n<ul>\n<li>Rule 374 empowers the Presiding officers to name the legislators if the MP continues disrupting the House even after repeated warnings.<\/li>\n<li>After that, the House can move a motion to suspend the MP for a period not exceeding the remainder of the session<\/li>\n<li>Rule 374A was incorporated in the Rule Book in December 2001.The intention was to circumvent the necessity of adopting a motion for suspension.\n<ul>\n<li>Under this rule, the Speaker can name an MP, who shall then automatically stand suspended for five days or the remaining part of the session.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>For Rajya Sabha\n<ul>\n<li>Rule 255 of the Rule Book of Rajya Sabha\n<ul>\n<li>It empowers the Chairman of Rajya Sabha to direct any Member to withdraw immediately from the House for any disorderly conduct.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Rule 256\n<ul>\n<li>This rule empowers the Chairman to name the members who persistently disregards the authority of the Chair or abuses the rules of the Council.<\/li>\n<li>After that, the House may adopt a motion suspending the Member for a period not exceeding the remainder of the session.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It should be noted that, unlike Lok Sabha (under rule 374A), <u>Rajya Sabha can not suspend its members without passing a motion for the same<\/u>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>News Summary: Budget Session begins and suspension of Opposition MPs revoked<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Budget session of Parliament, the last of the 17th Lok Sabha (LS), will begin with the President\u2019s address to a joint sitting of both Houses on January 31.<\/li>\n<li>14 Opposition MPs, suspended during the last session and their cases referred to the Privileges Committees, will return to attend the Budget session.\n<ul>\n<li>A record 146 Opposition MPs, from both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, were suspended during the Winter Session.<\/li>\n<li>They were suspended for disrupting proceedings to press their demand for a statement from Home Minister on the Parliament security breach on December 13.<\/li>\n<li>While the other MPs were suspended for the remainder of the Winter Session, the suspension of 14 MPs was referred to the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha privileges committees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Chairs in the two Houses have agreed to the government\u2019s request to revoke their suspensions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs (CCPA)?<\/h3>\n<p>The Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs (CCPA) is chaired by the Prime Minister of India. The CCPA usually makes decisions on matters presented to it for consideration by circulating papers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Q2) What is Lok Sabha?<\/h3>\n<p>The Lok Sabha is the lower house of India&#8217;s Parliament. It is also known as the House of the People. The Lok Sabha is made up of representatives chosen by direct election based on adult suffrage. The Constitution of India allows for a maximum of 550 members in the Lok Sabha, with 530 representing the states and 20 representing the Union Territories.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/budget-session-begins-suspension-of-opp-mps-to-be-revoked-9135333\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Budget Session begins today, suspension of Opposition MPs revoked<\/u><\/a><u> | <\/u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/all-parliament-suspensions-to-be-revoked-ahead-of-budget-session-tomorrow-4959307\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>NDTV<\/u><\/a><u> | <\/u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/parliament-special-session-explainer-rules-lok-sabha-rajya-agenda-business\/article67304796.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>The Hindu<\/u><\/a><u> | <\/u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/budget\/news\/parliament-s-budget-session-to-begin-on-wed-14-suspended-mps-to-return-124013000786_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Business Standard<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President can also prorogue, or end, a parliamentary session, or dissolve the Lok Sabha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":39372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}