Congress criticising ordinance route is like 'devil quoting scriptures', says Naidu: As It Happened

A day after the controversial land bill was tabled in the Lok Sabha, uproar over it is likely to continue in the second half of the Budget Session on Tuesday with the Congress-led Opposition protesting against the proposed changes.

New Delhi: A day after the controversial Land Bill was tabled in the Lok Sabha, uproar over it is likely to continue in Parliament on Tuesday with the Congress-led Opposition protesting against the proposed changes.

Here are the LIVE updates:

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called a meeting of Bharatiya Janata Party parliamentary board ahead of the session and is likely to discuss issues related to Land Bill.
• Senior party leaders including LK Advani, Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu are present in the meeting.
• BJP parliamentary board meeting ends.
• Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu was quoted by ANI saying, “Congress party criticizing ordinance route is a like a devil quoting scriptures.”
• Congress-led government was running on ordinances and the party has issued 456 ordinances in 50 years.  
• "Congress party criticising the Ordinance route is like a devil quoting scriptures.Their record is worse. They have issued ordinances umpteen number of times. 456 ordinances were issued in last 50 years," Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said.

• He added that while 77 ordinances were issued during Jawaharlal Nehru's time, as many as 77 ordinances were issued during six years of Indira Gandhi's regime, when three ordinances were issued every two months and 35 ordinances were issued during Rajiv Gandhi's time, the PTI reported.
• BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi says that  Congress is repeating lies. We are with country's farmers, poor will not budge from our stand. 
• PM Narendra Modi will hold discussions with senior ministers including Naidu, Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari and Finnace Minister Arun Jaitley over Land Bill in the afternoon, according to news report.
• Opposition on Tuesday attacked the government over the controversial statement made by a Shiv Sena MP targeting Muslims, prompting Home Minister Rajnath Singh to say that the Centre in no way endorses such comments which encourage discrimination on religious lines, the PTI reported.