Lok Sabha Election 2024, Phase 1: Voting on 102 seats underway
In the first phase of Lok Sabha elections 2024, as many as 102 constituencies spanning across 21 states and Union Territories will elect their new MPs.
The Congress has issued a three-line whip to all its MPs in the Rajya Sabha asking them to be present in the House at 11 am today in full strength to support the party’s stand. According to sources, the whip was issued last night as the opposition party seeks to corner the government on some burning issues.
Some party MPs have also given a notice for moving a privilege motion against External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj for allegedly “misleading” the House on the death of the Indians.
Congress leaders Ambika Soni, Pratap Bajwa and Shamsher Singh Dullo accused the Narendra Modi government of trying to suppress the issue of killing of 39 Indians.
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“We are definitely going to bring a privilege motion against the minister for having misguided the House both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha,” Soni told reporters on Thursday.
“When a minister gives statement on the floor of the house, it is considered an assurance. She (Sushma Swaraj) gave an assurance that these people were alive and dismissed all other inputs being given by others. Today they have proved right and her confidential sources, we do not know what they are, have proved wrong,” she added.
Bajwa had said Sushma Swaraj should disclose the sources which formed basis of her earlier claims that the 39 Indians, kidnapped by Islamic State, were alive.
He said the families of those killed should be given adequate compensation and the central government should provide a job to a member of each family.
(With agencies inputs)
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