Highlights | Parliament Special Session: PM Modi Introduces 'Women's Reservation Bill’ In Parl, Know All About It

Parliament Special Session Highlights: Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will hold their sittings in the new Parliament building on Tuesday. Both Houses were adjourned on Monday after a discussion on Parliamentary democracy in the last 75 years.

Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla will lead a function in the Central Hall of Parliament on Tuesday to celebrate the country's rich parliamentary legacy and resolve to make India a developed nation by 2047. The nearly one-and-a-half hour function will start and end with the national anthem and would be followed by a lunch. Later, the top leaders will lead all MPs to the new Parliament building.

Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will hold their sittings in the new Parliament building on Tuesday. Both Houses were adjourned on Monday after a discussion on Parliamentary democracy in the last 75 years.

Amid speculation that the women's reservation bill may be tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, the Congress said it welcomes the reported move as the party has been raising the demand for long. Minister of State Prahlad Singh Patel on Monday posted on social media platform X that the Union Cabinet has approved the women's reservation bill, but deleted the post within an hour.

While there was no official word on what transpired in the Cabinet meeting, which lasted for more than 90 minutes on Monday evening, speculations were rife that it approved the women's reservation bill.

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19 September 2023

15:19 IST

Parliament Special Session: PM Modi Praises Rajya Sabha 

PM Narendra Modi praised the Rajya Sabha for rising above political thinking and taking decisions in the interest of the country. He said that even though his government did not have a majority in the upper house, he was confident that the MPs would show maturity and support difficult decisions. He also said that today was an important day for women empowerment as a bill to reserve 33% seats for women in the Lok Sabha and the state assemblies was introduced in the lower house. He said that after discussion, the bill would come to the Rajya Sabha as well.

14:34 IST

Parliament Special Session Live: Women's Reservation Bill Tables In Lok Sabha

In the Lok Sabha of the new Parliament building, Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal tables the Women's Reservation Bill in Lok Sabha.