Rajya Sabha adjourned till 12 noon
Tuesday - July 31, 2018 11:44 am ,
Category : INDIA
Rajya Sabha adjourned till 12 noon
New Delhi July 31 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha was on Tuesday adjourned for an hour till 12 p.m. minutes after it met.
As soon as the House convened Trinamool Congress leader Derek O Brien raised the issue of National Register of Citizens of India (NRC) of Assam that excludes over 40 lakh names.
The issue had caused repeated adjournments on Monday too.
Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu said that Home Minister Rajnath Singh would give a statement on the issue in the upper House.
However as the members persisted Naidu adjourned the House till 12 noon.
Earlier before the proceedings commenced members of Trinamool Congress Samajwadi Party Rashtriya Janata Dal Telugu Desam Party Aam Aadmi Party Bahujan Samaj Party and Janata Dal-Secular among others staged protests in front of the Gandhi statue in Parliament House premises against the Assam NRC.
--IANS mak/in/sed
As soon as the House convened Trinamool Congress leader Derek O Brien raised the issue of National Register of Citizens of India (NRC) of Assam that excludes over 40 lakh names.
The issue had caused repeated adjournments on Monday too.
Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu said that Home Minister Rajnath Singh would give a statement on the issue in the upper House.
However as the members persisted Naidu adjourned the House till 12 noon.
Earlier before the proceedings commenced members of Trinamool Congress Samajwadi Party Rashtriya Janata Dal Telugu Desam Party Aam Aadmi Party Bahujan Samaj Party and Janata Dal-Secular among others staged protests in front of the Gandhi statue in Parliament House premises against the Assam NRC.
--IANS mak/in/sed
